8-letter words containing p, a, l, e
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- parabole — a simile
- paraffle — an extravagant display
- parallel — parallel processing
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parental — of or relating to a parent.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- parklike — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pas alle — a simple walking step in which the whole foot is put down softly on the ground.
- pas seul — a dance performed by one person; dance solo.
- pasquale — a male given name.
- passable — capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- passless — (of a person) having no pass or authorization
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastless — having no past
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- patulent — patulous
- paulette — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- pawnable — able to be pawned
- pay deal — a negotiation or agreement concerning pay or salary
- payables — debts to be paid
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peakless — having no peak, without a peak
- peaklike — resembling a peak
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- peccable — liable to sin or error.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)