8-letter words containing a, p, e, l, i
- pilotage — the process of directing the movement of a ship or aircraft by visual or electronic observations of recognizable landmarks.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pinnacle — a lofty peak.
- pintable — a pinball machine
- pipeclay — a fine, white clay used for making tobacco pipes, whitening parts of military or other dress, etc.
- pitiable — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
- pixelate — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixilate — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- plaister — plaster.
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- plausive — applauding.
- playtime — time for play or recreation.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- prizable — of worth
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- ptyalize — to induce the flow of saliva
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- rape oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- replicar — a custom-made or individually produced automobile whose body is a copy of a vintage or classic automobile.
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- rippable — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- slippage — an act or instance of slipping.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.