8-letter words containing p, l, e, a, t
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- la porte — a city in NW Indiana.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lap belt — (in a motor vehicle) a seat belt secured to the framework of a seat and fastening across the lap of a driver or a passenger.
- lapidate — to pelt with stones.
- lappeted — Simple past tense and past participle of lappet.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- omoplate — the shoulder blade
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.
- pallette — palette (def 8).
- palliate — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palmated — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
- palmette — a conventionalized shape in the form of palmately spread leaves or sections, used as ornamentation. Compare anthemion, lotus (def 5).
- palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- palpated — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.
- pamphlet — a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
- panatela — a long, slender cigar, usually with straight sides and tapering to a point at the closed end.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panetela — panatela
- pant leg — a leg of a pair of pants.
- pantable — a soft, slipper-like shoe
- pantofle — a slipper.
- parental — of or relating to a parent.
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastless — having no past
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- patulent — patulous
- paulette — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb