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10-letter words containing p, l, e, i

  • parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • partialize — to bias.
  • participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
  • 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.
  • pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
  • patrialize — to give a legal right to enter and stay in a country
  • pea weevil — a seed beetle, Bruchus pisorum, the larvae of which live in and feed on the seeds of the pea plant.
  • 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.
  • pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
  • pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
  • peccadillo — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • pecos bill — a legendary cowboy of the American frontier who performed such fabulous feats as digging the Rio Grande.
  • pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
  • peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
  • pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
  • pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
  • pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
  • pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
  • pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
  • pedophilic — pedophile.
  • pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
  • pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
  • pelletised — to make or form (concentrated ore) into pellets.
  • pelletizer — a machine for making pellets
  • pelvic fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins on the lower surface of the body, corresponding to the hind limbs of a land vertebrate; ventral fin.
  • pelvimeter — an instrument used to measure the pelvis
  • pelvimetry — measurement of the diameters of the female pelvis, especially the birth canal.
  • pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
  • pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
  • penelopize — to act or behave like Penelope, the wife of Odysseus
  • penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
  • penicillin — any of several antibiotics of low toxicity, produced naturally by molds of the genus Penicillium and also semisynthetically, having a bactericidal action on many susceptible Gram-positive or Gram-negative cocci and bacilli, some also being effective against certain spirochetes.
  • peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
  • penitently — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
  • penn hills — a town in W Pennsylvania.
  • penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • 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
  • pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
  • pentelikon — Pendelikon.
  • peppermill — a small handmill in which peppercorns are ground
  • peptolysis — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
  • peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
  • percentile — one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies: Ninety percent of the values lie at or below the ninetieth percentile, ten percent above it.
  • perchloric — of or derived from perchloric acid.
  • perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
  • pergelisol — permafrost.
  • periapical — encompassing or surrounding the tip of the root of a tooth.
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