7-letter words containing p, l
- 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.
- pattles — paddle1 (def 11).
- 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.
- pavlova — Anna [ah-nuh] /ˈɑ nə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1931, Russian ballet dancer.
- payable — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
- payably — profitably
- paylist — a list of people to be paid
- payload — the part of a cargo producing revenue or income, usually expressed in weight.
- payroll — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
- payslip — paper slip detailing wage payment
- paywall — a system in which access to all or part of a website is restricted to paid subscribers: Some newspapers have put their content behind a paywall.
- peafowl — any of several gallinaceous birds of the genera Pavo, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, and the East Indies, and Afropavo, of Africa.
- pealing — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- pearler — a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored. Compare cultured pearl.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- peddler — a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
- 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.
- pedlary — peddlery.
- pedlery — peddlery.
- pedocal — a soil rich in carbonates, especially those of lime.
- 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
- peebles — a historic county in S Scotland.
- peeling — the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- peg leg — an artificial leg, especially a wooden one.
- pegless — without pegs; not requiring pegs
- 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.
- pelorus — a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peloton — an ornamental glass made in Bohemia in the late 19th century, usually having a striated overlay of glass filaments in a different color.
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- peltate — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- pelters — strong criticism or verbal abuse
- pelting — paltry; petty; mean.
- pen pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
- pen-pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.