7-letter words containing l, a, i
- palming — the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- palmira — a city in W Colombia.
- palship — friendship
- palsied — paralyzed; unable to move or control certain muscles.
- pan lid — the lid of a pan such as a saucepan
- panicle — a compound raceme.
- paniolo — a person who herds cattle; cowboy.
- pantile — a roofing tile straight in its length but curved in its width to overlap the next tile.
- papilio — a butterfly or moth
- papilla — any small, nipplelike process or projection.
- parboil — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parling — talk; parley.
- partial — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- parulis — gumboil.
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- patiala — an important state of the former Punjab States: now part of Punjab in NW India.
- patible — endurable; sufferable; tolerable
- patrial — a native of any country who, by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent in Great Britain, has citizenship and residency rights there.
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- paul ii — (Pietro Barbo) 1417–71, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1464–71.
- paul iv — (Gian Pietro Caraffa) 1476–1559, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555–59.
- paul vi — (Giovanni Batista Montini) 1897–1978, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1963–78.
- pauline — a female given name.
- pauling — Linus Carl [lahy-nuh s] /ˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), 1901–94, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paylist — a list of people to be paid
- payslip — paper slip detailing wage payment
- pealing — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- pedrail — a type of wheel designed for use on rough terrain, consisting of a chain around the wheel with flat discs attached to the chain
- pelagic — of or relating to the open seas or oceans.
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelican — any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
- peloria — regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
- perilla — any of several aromatic Asian plants belonging to the genus Perilla, of the mint family, especially P. frutescens, which has become naturalized in the eastern U.S. and from which perilla oil is obtained.
- phallic — of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
- phallin — an element that is found in the death cap toadstool that was originally suspected as being the poisonous essence of the fungus
- philtra — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- pianola — (lowercase) Bridge. a hand, as a laydown, that is very easy to play.
- piebald — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- pigalle — Place Pigalle.
- pigtail — a braid of hair hanging down the back of the head.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pileate — having a pileus.
- pilikia — trouble.
- pillage — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pilular — of, relating to, or resembling pills.
- pinball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.