8-letter words containing l, a, p, s
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- papalism — the papal system.
- papalist — a follower of the Pope or papacy
- papulose — having papules
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- parasail — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- pas alle — a simple walking step in which the whole foot is put down softly on the ground.
- pas seul — a dance performed by one person; dance solo.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- pascal-m — ["Pascal-m: A Language for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems", S. Abramsky et al in Distributed Computing Systems, Y. Paker et al eds, Academic Press 1986, pp. 163-189].
- pascal-p — (language) The variant of Pascal used by the UCSD p-system environment. Pascal-P has extended string and array operations, random-access files and separate compilation. It uses P-code intermediate code and is available from Pecan.
- pascal-s — Simplified Pascal. June, 1975. A strict subset of Pascal, omits scalar types, subranges, sets, files, pointers, packed structures, 'with' and 'goto. Source for a complete Pascal-S compiler is in "Pascal-S: A Subset and Its Implementation", N. Wirth in Pascal - The Language and Its Implementation, by D.W. Barron, Wiley 1979.
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- paspalum — any of various grasses of the genus Paspalum of Australia and New Zealand having wide leaves
- pasquale — a male given name.
- pass law — (formerly, in South Africa) a law restricting the movement of Black Africans, esp from rural to urban areas
- passable — capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream.
- passably — fairly; moderately: a passably good novel.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- passless — (of a person) having no pass or authorization
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastless — having no past
- pastoral — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastorly — of or relating to a pastor
- pastural — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- patulous — open; gaping; expanded.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- payables — debts to be paid
- peakless — having no peak, without a peak
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- 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.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- petalous — having petals.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection