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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)
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