8-letter words containing a, p, e, l
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- pale ale — an amber colored ale brewed with pale malts; similar to bitter but drier and lighter
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.
- pallette — palette (def 8).
- palliate — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palmated — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
- palmdale — a city in SW California.
- palmette — a conventionalized shape in the form of palmately spread leaves or sections, used as ornamentation. Compare anthemion, lotus (def 5).
- palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
- palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
- palmiped — a web-footed bird
- palmlike — resembling a palm
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- palpable — readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident: a palpable lie; palpable absurdity.
- palpated — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- palpebra — an eyelid
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.
- paludine — marshy
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- pamphlet — a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
- panatela — a long, slender cigar, usually with straight sides and tapering to a point at the closed end.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- paneless — (of a building or window) without panes of glass
- paneling — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panelled — A panelled room has decorative wooden panels covering its walls.
- panetela — panatela
- pangless — causing no pain
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- pant leg — a leg of a pair of pants.
- pantable — a soft, slipper-like shoe
- pantofle — a slipper.
- papalize — to make papal or render Roman Catholic
- papelera — a small Renaissance cabinet for papers and writing materials, mounted on a small stand.
- papillae — any small, nipplelike process or projection.
- papulose — having papules