8-letter words containing r, e, l, a
- palpebra — an eyelid
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- papelera — a small Renaissance cabinet for papers and writing materials, mounted on a small stand.
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- parabole — a simile
- paraffle — an extravagant display
- parallel — parallel processing
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parental — of or relating to a parent.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- parklike — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
- pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- pedaller — a person who pedals
- pellagra — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pellekar — palikar.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- per-oral — administered or performed through the mouth, as surgery or administration of a drug.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.