9-letter words containing p, a, l, i, t
- 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.
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- pantingly — eagerly
- papillote — a decorative curled paper placed over the end of the bone of a cutlet or chop.
- paralytic — a person affected with paralysis.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- partially — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- pastiglia — a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-relief ornament of furniture, being applied in layers, molded, carved, and gilded.
- patanjali — flourished late 2nd century b.c, Indian scholar and philosopher: sometimes regarded as the founder of yoga.
- patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- patiently — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patriliny — the tracing of descent exclusively through the male members of a family.
- 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
- peltation — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- petechial — pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by petechiae.
- petillant — slightly sparkling.
- petiolate — having a petiole or peduncle.
- petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- phacolith — a layer of igneous rock, which has the structure of a lens, and which occurs in an invasive position in sedimentary rock
- phil katz — (person) The founder of PKWARE, Inc..
- philately — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- philomath — a person who enjoys learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- pholidota — the order comprising the pangolins.
- photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
- phthalein — any of a group of compounds formed by treating phthalic anhydride with phenols, from which certain important dyes are derived.
- phylactic — defending or protecting, especially from disease.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pie plant — rhubarb
- pie plate — a shallow metal or glass dish with sloping sides, used for cooking a pie
- pig latin — a form of language, used especially by children, that is derived from ordinary English by moving the first consonant or consonant cluster of each word to the end of the word and adding the sound (ā), as in Eakspay igpay atinlay for “Speak Pig Latin.”.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pin plate — a bearing plate having a projection for fixing into masonry.
- pinnulate — having pinnules.