7-letter words containing p, l, i
- pinnula — a pinnule.
- pinnule — Zoology. a part or organ resembling a barb of a feather, a fin, or the like. a finlet.
- pinocle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pintail — a long-necked river duck, Anas acuta, of the Old and New Worlds, having long and narrow middle tail feathers.
- pinwale — (of a fabric, especially corduroy) having very thin wales.
- piously — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- pipeful — a quantity sufficient to fill the bowl of a pipe: a pipeful of tobacco.
- pipless — (of fruit) without any pips; seedless
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- pitfall — a lightly covered and unnoticeable pit prepared as a trap for people or animals.
- pithful — full of pith; pithy; succinct
- pithily — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- pitiful — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- pivotal — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- placing — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- placoid — platelike, as the scales or dermal investments of sharks.
- plagio- — slanting, inclining, or oblique
- plagium — the crime of kidnapping a child
- plaided — made of plaid, or having a similar pattern.
- plainer — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plainly — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plaited — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
- planing — Carpentry. any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing, or for forming moldings, chamfers, rabbets, grooves, etc., by means of an inclined, adjustable blade moved along and against the piece being worked.
- planish — to give a smooth finish to (metal) by striking lightly with a smoothly faced hammer or die.
- plantin — Christophe [kree-stawf] /kriˈstɔf/ (Show IPA), c1520–1589, French typographer.
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plasmid — a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication, occurring in bacteria and yeast: used in recombinant DNA procedures to transfer genetic material from one cell to another.
- plasmin — fibrinolysin.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- platina — a native alloy of platinum with palladium, iridium, osmium, etc.
- plating — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platini — Michel. born 1955, French footballer, manager, and administrator; scored 41 goals in 72 games for France (1976–87); European Footballer of the Year (1983–85); president of UEFA (2007–2015)
- platypi — a small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Australia and Tasmania, having webbed feet, a tail like that of a beaver, a sensitive bill resembling that of a duck, and, in adult males, venom-injecting spurs on the ankles of the hind limbs, used primarily for fighting with other males during the breeding season.
- plaudit — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- play it — to act in a (specified) manner
- playing — the act of taking part in a game or sport
- plebify — to make popular or vulgar
- pléiade — a group of seven French poets of the 16th cent. who favored the use of classical forms
- plenipo — a plenipotentiary diplomat
- plenish — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- plenism — the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
- plenist — a person who adheres to the philosophical theory of plenism
- plerion — a filled-centre supernova remnant in which radiation is emitted by the centre as well as the shell
- pliable — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
- pliancy — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- plinian — ("the Elder"; Gaius Plinius Secundus) a.d. 23–79, Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer.
- plinker — a person who shoots a handgun recreationally