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8-letter words containing d, i, p, l, e

  • multiped — having many feet.
  • opalized — made into an opal
  • 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.
  • palmiped — a web-footed bird
  • paludine — marshy
  • 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.
  • peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
  • pedipalp — (in arachnids) one member of the usually longer pair of appendages immediately behind the chelicerae.
  • pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
  • pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
  • penfield — Wilder. 1891–1976, Canadian scientist, neurosurgeon, and writer born in the US; he developed a surgical treatment for epilepsy
  • peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
  • petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
  • phelloid — having a resemblance to cork
  • phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
  • pig lead — lead molded in pigs.
  • 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.
  • pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
  • plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
  • pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
  • pledging — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
  • plighted — to pledge (one's troth) in engagement to marry.
  • plumiped — a bird with feathered feet
  • polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • polypide — a visible digestive system and muscles
  • poolside — the lounging area around a swimming pool.
  • praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
  • prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • predrill — to drill holes in (something) or to drill (holes) in advance
  • preludio — a musical prelude
  • prideful — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • profiled — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
  • pulicide — a flea-killing substance
  • redilisp — R.M. Keller, U Utah. Dialect of Lisp used on the Rediflow machine, a derivative of FEL.
  • sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
  • sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
  • serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
  • sideslip — to slip to one side.
  • spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
  • speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
  • spindled — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
  • spindler — a person who spindles
  • splendid — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
  • stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
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