8-letter words containing p, a, l, d
- mud flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mud-flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- napalmed — Simple past tense and past participle of napalm.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- 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.
- opalized — made into an opal
- paillard — a scallop, especially of veal or chicken, that is pounded flat and grilled or sautéed quickly.
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palladia — Also, Palladion [puh-ley-dee-on] /pəˈleɪ diˌɒn/ (Show IPA). a statue of Athena, especially one on the citadel of Troy on which the safety of the city was supposed to depend.
- palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- palladio — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1508–80, Italian architect famous for his widely translated Four Books of Architecture, 1570.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.
- palliard — an expert beggar; an unsavoury character
- pallidly — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- palmated — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
- palmdale — a city in SW California.
- palmiped — a web-footed bird
- palpated — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- paludine — marshy
- paludism — malaria.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- panelled — A panelled room has decorative wooden panels covering its walls.
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parkland — a grassland region with isolated or grouped trees, usually in temperate regions.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pavlodar — a city in NE Kazakhstan.
- pay deal — a negotiation or agreement concerning pay or salary
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
- pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pedaller — a person who pedals
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pedipalp — (in arachnids) one member of the usually longer pair of appendages immediately behind the chelicerae.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- phalloid — having the form of or bearing a similarity to a penis
- pig lead — lead molded in pigs.