8-letter words containing p, l
- anapolis — a city in central Brazil.
- anglepod — an American wild flowering plant with angular pods, belonging to the milkweed family
- antelope — An antelope is an animal like a deer, with long legs and horns, that lives in Africa or Asia. Antelopes are graceful and can run fast. There are many different types of antelope.
- antipole — the opposite pole
- antislip — designed to prevent slipping or to remain stationary
- anyplace — Anyplace means the same as anywhere.
- aphelion — the point in its orbit when a planet or comet is at its greatest distance from the sun
- apholate — a chemical used in pesticides which inhibits an organism's reproduction
- apically — of, at, or forming the apex.
- apiculus — a small point or tip
- apiology — the scientific study of bees
- aplastic — relating to or characterized by aplasia
- aplustre — the ornamental stern on an ancient Greek or Roman ship
- apollyon — the destroyer, a name given to the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- apologal — resembling or related to an apologue
- apologia — An apologia is a statement in which you defend something that you strongly believe in, for example a way of life, a person's behaviour, or a philosophy.
- apologie — Archaic spelling of apology.
- apologue — an allegory or moral fable
- apolunes — Plural form of apolune.
- apoplast — the nonprotoplasmic component of a plant, including the cell walls and intercellular material
- apoplexy — Apoplexy is a stroke.
- apostilb — a unit of luminance equal to one ten thousandth of a lambert.
- apostles — Plural form of apostle.
- appaling — Misspelling of appalling.
- appalled — If you are appalled by something, you are shocked or disgusted because it is so bad or unpleasant.
- apparell — Obsolete form of apparel.
- apparels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apparel.
- appealed — Simple past tense and past participle of appeal.
- appealer — an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
- appeling — Present participle of appel.
- appellee — a person who is accused or appealed against
- appellor — the accuser or prosecutor
- applauds — to clap the hands as an expression of approval, appreciation, acclamation, etc.: They applauded wildly at the end of the opera.
- applause — Applause is the noise made by a group of people clapping their hands to show approval.
- apple ii — (computer) An 8-bit personal computer with a 6502 processor, from Apple Computer. It was invented by Steve Wozniak and was very popular from about 1980 until the first several years of MS-DOS IBM PCs.
- appleton — Sir Edward (Victor). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947
- applique — Applique is the craft of sewing fabric shapes onto larger pieces of cloth. You can also use applique to refer to things you make using this craft.
- applying — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- apprisal — The act of apprising, of making aware, of informing.
- apprizal — Archaic form of appraisal.
- approval — If you win someone's approval for something that you ask for or suggest, they agree to it.
- appulses — Plural form of appulse.
- apronful — the quantity that can be held in an apron
- apuleius — Lucius (ˈluːsɪəs). 2nd century ad, Roman writer, noted for his romance The Golden Ass
- arc lamp — a lamp in which brilliant light is produced by maintaining an arc between two electrodes, used as a spotlight, searchlight, etc.
- ashplant — a walking stick made from an ash sapling
- asparkle — in a glittering or glinting manner
- asphodel — any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
- asplenia — Absence of normal spleen function.
- atypical — Someone or something that is atypical is not typical of its kind.