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12-letter words containing l, a, p

  • paint roller — a roller of absorbent material, mounted on a handle, that is rolled in a trough of paint and then rolled over a flat surface to be painted.
  • paintballing — a sport in which players compete in teams or individually to eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint from a special gun
  • painted lady — a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish-black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots, the larvae of which feed on thistles.
  • palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
  • palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
  • palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
  • palaeography — the study of the handwritings of the past, and often the manuscripts as well, so that they may be dated, read, etc, and may serve as historical and literary sources
  • palaeolithic — the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc
  • palais glide — a dance with high kicks and gliding steps in which performers link arms in a row
  • palatability — acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory: palatable food.
  • palatalizing — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
  • palatography — a technique for observing the position of the tongue in relation to the palate during articulation, especially by placing powder or dye on the palate and then noting the area from which it has been removed by the contact of the tongue with the palate during the production of a speech sound.
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • paleo-indian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.
  • paleobiology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
  • paleoecology — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
  • paleogeology — the science of representing geologic conditions of some given time in past earth history.
  • paleographer — sb who studies ancient scripts
  • paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
  • paleological — the study of antiquities.
  • paleontology — the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
  • paleozoology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil animals.
  • palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
  • palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • palingenesis — rebirth; regeneration.
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • palm cabbage — cabbage palm.
  • palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
  • palo cortado — a rich, dry sherry
  • paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
  • paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
  • palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
  • pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
  • panama canal — a canal extending SE from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama. 40 miles (64 km) long.
  • pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
  • pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • panchen lama — Tashi Lama.
  • pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
  • panel beater — a person who beats out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
  • panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
  • panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
  • pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
  • pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
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