9-letter words containing p, a, l, c, e
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- objectpal — Object-oriented database language, part of Borland's MS-Windows version of Paradox.
- opalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of opalesce.
- opalesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opalesce.
- open call — an audition, especially for actors or dancers, open to anyone wishing to try out.
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- pachelbel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1706, German organist and composer.
- paleocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, from 65 to 55 million years ago, and characterized by a proliferation of mammals.
- 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.
- paperclip — a flat wire or plastic clip shaped so that it can hold sheets of paper between two of its loops.
- paraclete — an advocate or intercessor.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parcelled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- parfleche — a rawhide that has been dried after having been soaked in a solution of lye and water to remove the hair.
- pay cable — cable television.
- pay scale — salary range
- pcv valve — a valve used to control and direct the flow of gases during positive crankcase ventilation.
- peaceable — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- peaceably — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- peaceless — without peace
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- pectineal — of or relating to the pectineus muscle or the pubic bone
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- pedocalic — of or relating to a pedocal
- pensacola — a seaport in NW Florida, on Pensacola Bay.
- percaline — a fine, lightweight cotton fabric, usually finished with a gloss and dyed in one color, used especially for linings.
- perceable — pierceable
- percental — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
- petechial — pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by petechiae.
- petulance — moodiness, irritability
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- piacevole — (to be performed) in a pleasant, agreeable manner
- piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- pipe clay — a white, plastic clay used for making clay tobacco pipes or pottery, for whitening leather, etc.
- pipe-clay — to whiten with pipe clay.
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- placative — placatory.
- place mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- place-mat — a mat set on a dining table beneath a place setting.
- placeable — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.