8-letter words containing m, p, l, i
- minipill — an oral birth control pill that contains only a progestin and is to be taken daily without monthly cessation.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- misspell — Spell (a word) incorrectly.
- misspelt — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
- multiped — having many feet.
- multiple — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- myophily — pollination of plants by flies
- nit-lamp — jacklight.
- oil lamp — lamp that burns fuel
- oil palm — an African feather palm, Elaeis guineensis, the fruits of which yield palm oil.
- oil pump — An oil pump is a pump that sends lubricating oil under pressure to the bearings and other lubricated surfaces of an engine.
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- paliform — resembling a stake
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palm oil — a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
- palmiped — a web-footed bird
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- palmitin — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 1 H 9 8 O 6 , prepared from glycerol and palmitic acid: used in the manufacture of soap.
- palmlike — resembling a palm
- palomino — a horse with a golden coat, a white mane and tail, and often white markings on the face and legs, developed chiefly in the southwestern U.S.
- paludism — malaria.
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- papalism — the papal system.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- pemoline — a synthetic, weak, central nervous system stimulant, C 9 H 8 N 2 O 2 , with sympathomimetic activity, used as an adjunct in the management of hyperkinetic behavior disorders.
- per mill — per thousand.
- periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- 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
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philomel — the nightingale.
- philomot — having the same colour as that of a dead leaf
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- picomole — a trillionth of a mole
- pilgrims — a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- piliform — having the form of a hair; resembling hair.
- pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track