8-letter words containing p, e, a, l
- playwear — playclothes.
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleather — a synthetic leather
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- plottage — the area within or comprising a plot of land.
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- plussage — a surplus amount.
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- polestar — Polaris.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pollable — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- ponderal — relating to weight
- populace — the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
- populate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- portable — portability
- poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
- pottable — (of a snooker ball) able to be potted
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- pourable — able to be poured
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prattler — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pre-sale — a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- prealtar — in front of the altar.
- prealter — to alter beforehand
- preamble — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- preapply — to apply beforehand
- preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- precaval — See under vena cava.
- preclean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.