8-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- palladia — Also, Palladion [puh-ley-dee-on] /pəˈleɪ diˌɒn/ (Show IPA). a statue of Athena, especially one on the citadel of Troy on which the safety of the city was supposed to depend.
- palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- palladio — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1508–80, Italian architect famous for his widely translated Four Books of Architecture, 1570.
- palliard — an expert beggar; an unsavoury character
- pallidly — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- palmiped — a web-footed bird
- paludine — marshy
- paludism — malaria.
- pandemia — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- paranoid — of, like, or suffering from paranoia.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- pay dirt — soil, gravel, or ore that can be mined profitably.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedipalp — (in arachnids) one member of the usually longer pair of appendages immediately behind the chelicerae.
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- phalloid — having the form of or bearing a similarity to a penis
- pheidias — Phidias
- picrated — containing picrate
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pig lead — lead molded in pigs.
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pileated — crested.
- pillaged — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pillared — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
- pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- placidly — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.