7-letter words containing p, l
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
- prelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prelife — a life lived before one's life on earth
- prelim. — preliminary
- prelims — preliminary.
- preload — If someone preloads, they drink a lot of alcohol before they go out for a social occasion.
- prelude — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- premeal — of the period before a meal
- preoral — situated in front of or before the mouth.
- prepill — of the period before the contraceptive pill became available
- preplan — to plan beforehand
- prequel — a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
- presale — a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- presell — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- presley — Elvis (Aron) 1935–77, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer.
- presold — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- prestel — a videotex system in which information could be received via a telephone line and viewed on an adapted television
- pretell — to predict
- pretzel — a crisp, dry biscuit, usually in the form of a knot or stick, salted on the outside.
- prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- preyful — predatory
- pricily — in a pricey manner
- prickle — a sharp point.
- prickly — full of or armed with prickles.
- primely — excellently.
- primula — primrose (def 1).
- priorly — preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous: A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.
- privily — in a privy manner; secretly.
- proball — believable; probable
- problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- proclus — a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- profile — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- proglet — /prog'let/ [UK] A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long and containing no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off the top of one's head, that does not need any editing, and that runs correctly the first time (this amount varies significantly according to one's skill and the language one is using). Compare toy program, noddy, one-liner wars.
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- proline — an alcohol-soluble amino acid, C 4 H 9 NHCOOH, occurring in high concentration in collagen. Symbol: P. Abbreviation: Pro;
- proller — someone who prolls
- prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- propale — to publish, or disclose (something)
- propyla — plural of propylon.
- protalk — Quintus. An object-oriented Prolog.
- protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
- proudly — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- prowled — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- prowler — a person or animal that prowls.
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- psyllid — jumping plant louse.
- pteryla — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- ptolemy — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.