7-letter words containing l, a, i
- oedipal — of, characterized by, or resulting from the Oedipus complex.
- offical — Misspelling of official.
- oil pan — the bottom part of the crankcase of an internal-combustion engine in which the oil used to lubricate the engine accumulates.
- oilcake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
- oilcamp — a camp for oil workers
- oilcans — Plural form of oilcan.
- oildale — a town in SW California.
- oilsand — Alternative spelling of oil sand.
- olaf ii — Saint (Olaf Haraldssön) a.d. 995–1030, king of Norway from 1016 to 1029; patron saint of Norway.
- olivary — shaped like an olive.
- olympia — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- opaline — of or like opal; opalescent.
- opalize — To convert into a form of opal or chalcedony, especially to convert wood into such a fossilized form.
- opelika — a city in E Alabama.
- ophelia — a female given name.
- optical — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- optimal — Best or most favorable; optimum.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- orality — the condition or quality of being oral; collectively, the personality traits characteristic of the oral phase of psychosexual development.
- orbital — of or relating to an orbit.
- ordinal — of or relating to an order, as of animals or plants.
- orillia — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- osmanli — an Ottoman.
- otalgia — earache.
- otalgic — (pathology) Of or pertaining to otalgia.
- outlaid — simple past tense and past participle of outlay.
- outsail — to outdo in sailing; sail farther, more skillfully, or faster than.
- ovality — the quality or state of being oval.
- ovalize — Of a circle, to become stretched out in one direction, thereby becoming an oval.
- ovarial — ovarian
- ovoidal — something that is egg-shaped
- paginal — of or relating to pages.
- pahlavi — the Indo-European, Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to the 10th centuries.
- pai-loo — (in Chinese architecture) a decorative or monumental gateway having a trabeated form with three compartments, the central one higher than the others.
- pailful — a quantity sufficient to fill a pail: a pailful of water.
- pailisp — (language) A parallel Lisp built on Scheme in 1986.
- paillon — a sheet of thin metallic foil used decoratively in enameling and gilding.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- paisley — a soft woolen fabric woven with a pattern of colorful and minutely detailed figures.
- paladin — any one of the 12 legendary peers or knightly champions in attendance on Charlemagne.
- palatia — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- palikar — a Greek militiaman in the Greek war for independence against the Turks 1821–28.
- palikir — the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia, on the island of Pohnpei.
- palinka — a type of apricot brandy, originating in Central and Eastern Europe
- palissy — Bernard [ber-nar] /bɛrˈnar/ (Show IPA), c1510–89, French potter, enameler, and author.
- pallial — of or relating to the mantle of a mollusk.
- palling — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- pallium — a large, rectangular mantle worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome.
- palmiet — a South African rush