9-letter words containing e, l, p
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- paleocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, from 65 to 55 million years ago, and characterized by a proliferation of mammals.
- paleogene — noting or pertaining to the earlier part of the Cenozoic Era, in the system adopted by some geologists, occurring from 65 to 25 million years ago and including the Oligocene, Eocene, and Paleocene epochs: corresponds to the earlier part of the Tertiary Period in the system generally used in the U.S. Compare Neogene.
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- paleology — the study of antiquities.
- paleozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 570 million and 230 million years ago, characterized by the advent of fish, insects, and reptiles.
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- palisades — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- pall-like — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- palleting — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- palletize — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palliasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
- palm leaf — the leaf or frond of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, thatch, mats, etc.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- paloverde — a spiny, desert shrub, Cercidium floridum, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having green bark.
- palpebral — of or relating to the eyelids.
- palpitate — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- panatella — panetella.
- panel pin — a light slender nail with a narrow head
- panel saw — a small ripsaw or crosscut saw.
- panel van — a small van with two rear doors, esp one having windows and seats in the rear
- panelized — composed of prefabricated sections of walls, floors, or roofs that can be assembled at the building site: a panelized house.
- panelling — wood or other material made into panels.
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- panetella — a long, slender cigar, usually with straight sides and tapering to a point at the closed end.
- panhandle — the handle of a pan.
- pannelled — divided into panels
- pansexual — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- pantaleon — a keyboard instrument that preceded the piano
- pantalets — Sometimes, pantalet. long drawers extending below the skirt, with a frill or other finish at the bottom of the leg, commonly worn by women and girls in the 19th century.
- pantalone — an Italian comic character
- panthenol — pantothenyl alcohol
- pantofles — a slipper.
- paperclip — a flat wire or plastic clip shaped so that it can hold sheets of paper between two of its loops.
- papergirl — a girl who delivers newspapers to homes.
- paperless — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- papermail — snail mail
- papillose — full of papillae.
- papillote — a decorative curled paper placed over the end of the bone of a cutlet or chop.
- papillule — a mini papilla
- par value — face value (def 1).
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.