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8-letter words containing p, a, r, l

  • lampyrid — any of several beetles of the family Lampyridae, comprising the fireflies.
  • lap robe — a blanket, fur covering, or the like, used to cover one's lap or legs, as when sitting outdoors or riding in an open vehicle.
  • lapboard — a thin, flat board to be held on the lap for use as a table or writing surface.
  • lapidary — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
  • lappered — to clabber; curdle.
  • lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
  • larkspur — a town in W California.
  • larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
  • leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
  • leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
  • leopards — Plural form of leopard.
  • lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
  • liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
  • lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
  • livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
  • lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
  • lyallpur — a city in NE Pakistan.
  • maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
  • malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
  • malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
  • malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
  • mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
  • milarepa — (tool)   A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
  • moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • nonpolar — containing no permanently dipolar molecules; lacking a dipole.
  • norplant — a contraceptive implant for women surgically inserted under the skin of the upper arm so as to release progesterone or various other steroid hormones gradually over a period of several years
  • oilpaper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
  • oltipraz — 4-methyl-5-(2-pyrazinyl)-3-dithiolethione, a schistosomicide drug also used in tumour prevention.
  • operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
  • opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
  • overleap — to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
  • overplan — to plan excessively
  • overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
  • 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.
  • palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
  • palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
  • paliform — resembling a stake
  • palliard — an expert beggar; an unsavoury character
  • palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
  • palpator — a type of beetle with long maxillary appendages
  • palpebra — an eyelid
  • panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
  • panderly — in the manner of a pander
  • papelera — a small Renaissance cabinet for papers and writing materials, mounted on a small stand.
  • parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
  • parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
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