8-letter words containing p, a, i, l, s
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- impanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impanel.
- implants — Plural form of implant.
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- jalopies — Plural form of jalopy.
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- lampions — Plural form of lampion.
- landskip — landscape.
- landslip — the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
- lap-size — of a size to fit the lap: a lap-size chessboard.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapillus — a small stony particle ejected from a volcano.
- lapsible — liable to lapse.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- linkspan — a hinged bridge on a quay, used to move vehicles on or off a vessel
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- 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.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludism — malaria.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- papalism — the papal system.
- papalist — a follower of the Pope or papacy
- parasail — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.