7-letter words containing p, i, l
- papilio — a butterfly or moth
- papilla — any small, nipplelike process or projection.
- parboil — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parling — talk; parley.
- partial — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- parulis — gumboil.
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- patiala — an important state of the former Punjab States: now part of Punjab in NW India.
- patible — endurable; sufferable; tolerable
- patrial — a native of any country who, by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent in Great Britain, has citizenship and residency rights there.
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- paul ii — (Pietro Barbo) 1417–71, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1464–71.
- paul iv — (Gian Pietro Caraffa) 1476–1559, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555–59.
- paul vi — (Giovanni Batista Montini) 1897–1978, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1963–78.
- pauline — a female given name.
- pauling — Linus Carl [lahy-nuh s] /ˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), 1901–94, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paylist — a list of people to be paid
- payslip — paper slip detailing wage payment
- pealing — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- pedicel — Botany. a small stalk. an ultimate division of a common peduncle. one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
- pedicle — a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
- pedrail — a type of wheel designed for use on rough terrain, consisting of a chain around the wheel with flat discs attached to the chain
- peeling — the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- peglike — a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- pehlevi — the Pahlavi language.
- pelagic — of or relating to the open seas or oceans.
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelican — any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
- pelisse — an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- peloria — regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
- pelting — paltry; petty; mean.
- penicil — a small, brushlike tuft of hairs, as on a caterpillar.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- perilla — any of several aromatic Asian plants belonging to the genus Perilla, of the mint family, especially P. frutescens, which has become naturalized in the eastern U.S. and from which perilla oil is obtained.
- perlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- petiole — Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- phallic — of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
- phallin — an element that is found in the death cap toadstool that was originally suspected as being the poisonous essence of the fungus
- phichol — the commander of Abimelech's army. Gen. 26:26.
- philem. — Philemon
- philips — one of the 12 apostles. Mark 3:18; John 1:43–48; 6:5–7.
- phillip — a male given name.
- phillis — a feminine name
- philol. — philological
- philos. — philosopher
- philter — a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
- philtra — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.