8-letter words containing p, e, l, i, t
- polemist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- politely — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- politest — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- polities — a particular form or system of government: civil polity; ecclesiastical polity.
- poultice — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prelimit — to limit within bounds beforehand: The chairman prelimited his speech to 10 minutes.
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- prettily — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- ptyalize — to induce the flow of saliva
- pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- pulpiter — a preacher
- pyelitis — inflammation of the pelvis or outlet of the kidney.
- reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- steplike — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- sweetlip — any of various Australian fish with large lips
- tailpipe — an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- the pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- tholepin — thole1
- tie clip — clasp for securing a necktie
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- toe clip — a device attached to a bicycle pedal that grips the front part of the rider's shoe to keep the foot from slipping off the pedal.
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triple a — anti-aircraft artillery
- triplets — three children born at the same time to the same mother
- triplite — a dark-brown, massive mineral, fluorophosphate of iron and manganese.
- trippler — a horse that moves at a tripple
- tumpline — a strap or sling passed around the chest or forehead to help support a pack carried on a person's back.