8-letter words containing l, d, a, p
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pileated — crested.
- pillaged — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pillared — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- placated — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placidly — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
- platypod — Also, platypodous [pluh-tip-uh-duh s] /pləˈtɪp ə dəs/ (Show IPA). having a broad foot, as certain gastropod mollusks.
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- play-day — a day for relaxation or for participation in sports contests; a holiday.
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- playdate — a gathering of children at a house for play
- playdown — a play-off.
- playland — an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- podalgia — pain in the foot.
- polaroid — instant photograph
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- poloidal — relating to a type of magnetic field
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- pplambda — (language) essentially the first-order predicate calculus superposed upon the simply-typed polymorphic lambda-calculus. PPLambda is the object language for LCF.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- predella — the base of an altarpiece, often decorated with small paintings or reliefs.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- slapdash — in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
- slaphead — a bald person
- soapland — a Japanese bathhouse and brothel