10-letter words containing a, p, e, l, i
- plain jane — girl: unattractive
- plain text — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plain-jane — simple and modest; unadorned; basic: a plain-Jane car dressed up with leather upholstery.
- plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- plaintless — without complaint
- plainville — a town in N Connecticut.
- plane iron — the blade of a plane.
- planetical — planetary
- planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- plant life — vegetation, flora
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- plate rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- platinated — to platinize.
- pleadingly — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plebeianly — in a plebeian manner
- plenilunar — relating to a full moon
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- plexiglass — a material very similar to Plexiglas
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
- poisonable — able to be poisoned
- police car — squad car.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
- polygamize — to practise polygamy
- polyhalite — a type or pink or red mineral
- polynesian — of or relating to Polynesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- postillate — to annotate, to postil
- potentilla — any rosaceous plant or shrub of the N temperate genus Potentilla, having five-petalled flowers
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- praiseless — not receiving praise; unpraised
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- prattville — a town in central Alabama.
- praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- pre-climax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.