8-letter words containing s, e, p, a, l
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- paneless — (of a building or window) without panes of glass
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- pangless — causing no pain
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- papulose — having papules
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- pas alle — a simple walking step in which the whole foot is put down softly on the ground.
- pas seul — a dance performed by one person; dance solo.
- pasquale — a male given name.
- passable — capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- passless — (of a person) having no pass or authorization
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastless — having no past
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- payables — debts to be paid
- peakless — having no peak, without a peak
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- petalous — having petals.
- 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.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- plaister — plaster.
- planless — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- plateasm — the practice of talking with the mouth open too wide
- plausive — applauding.
- playless — having no play
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.