8-letter words containing e, l, i, p
- parklike — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pc-tiles — (language) A visual programming language.
- peaklike — resembling a peak
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- pebbling — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- 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.
- peelings — Peelings are pieces of skin removed from vegetables and fruit.
- pelagial — the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- pelerine — a woman's cape of fur or cloth, usually waist-length in back with long descending ends in front.
- pellicle — a thin skin or membrane; film; scum.
- pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- pelorize — to affect with peloria.
- pemoline — a synthetic, weak, central nervous system stimulant, C 9 H 8 N 2 O 2 , with sympathomimetic activity, used as an adjunct in the management of hyperkinetic behavior disorders.
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- 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
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- peopling — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- pep pill — a pill, tablet, or capsule that contains a stimulant drug, especially amphetamine.
- per mill — per thousand.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.