9-letter words containing p, a, i, l
- paesiello — Giovanni [Italian jaw-vahn-nee] /Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), Paisiello, Giovanni.
- paillasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
- paillette — a spangle for ornamenting a costume.
- painfully — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- paintable — easily painted
- paintball — a game in which players mark their opponents with colored gelatin capsules shot out of an air gun.
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- paisiello — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1741–1816, Italian composer.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- palanquin — (formerly in India and other Eastern countries) a passenger conveyance, usually for one person, consisting of a covered or boxlike litter carried by means of poles resting on the shoulders of several men.
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- paleozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 570 million and 230 million years ago, characterized by the advent of fish, insects, and reptiles.
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- palilalia — a speech disorder in which a word or phrase is rapidly repeated
- palillogy — the repetition of a phrase or word
- palisades — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- pall-like — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- palladian — pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.
- palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
- palleting — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- palletize — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palliasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- palpation — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- palpitant — affected or characterized by palpitation.
- palpitate — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- panel pin — a light slender nail with a narrow head
- panelized — composed of prefabricated sections of walls, floors, or roofs that can be assembled at the building site: a panelized house.
- panelling — wood or other material made into panels.
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- panically — in a panicky manner
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- pantingly — eagerly
- paperclip — a flat wire or plastic clip shaped so that it can hold sheets of paper between two of its loops.
- papergirl — a girl who delivers newspapers to homes.
- papermail — snail mail
- papillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a papilla or papillae.
- papilloma — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- papillose — full of papillae.
- papillote — a decorative curled paper placed over the end of the bone of a cutlet or chop.
- papillule — a mini papilla
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- paradisal — paradisiacal.