10-letter words containing p, l, a, n, i
- nyctalopia — night blindness.
- nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
- oenophilia — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- olanzapine — An antipsychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disease etc.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- optionable — the power or right of choosing.
- optionally — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- pali canon — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palinopsia — a visual disorder in which the patient perceives a prolonged afterimage
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- palliament — a long robe
- palliation — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panellized — made in sections for quick assembly
- panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panslavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- papulation — the formation or development of papules
- paralation — PARALlel reLATION. Sabot, MIT 1987. A framework for parallel programming. A "field" is an array of objects, placed at different sites. A paralation is a group of fields, defining nearness between field elements. Operations can be performed in parallel on every site of a paralation.
- parapineal — situated beside the pineal gland
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parentlike — a father or a mother.
- parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
- parnellite — Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.
- parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- partisanly — in a partisan manner
- party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
- pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- peanut oil — a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns