7-letter words containing t, e, l, p
- paleate — having scales
- paletot — any of various loose or fitted coats or jackets for men and women, especially a close-fitting jacket worn over a dress by women in the 19th century.
- palette — colour palette
- palmate — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
- palmiet — a South African rush
- palpate — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- pantile — a roofing tile straight in its length but curved in its width to overlap the next tile.
- pantler — a pantry servant
- partlet — a garment for the neck and shoulders, usually ruffled and having a collar, worn in the 16th century.
- patella — Anatomy. the flat, movable bone at the front of the knee; kneecap.
- patible — endurable; sufferable; tolerable
- pattles — paddle1 (def 11).
- 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.
- penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- peptalk — to give a pep talk to (a person, group, etc.).
- perlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- petaled — one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
- petiole — Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- petrale — a variety of flounder, native to the Pacific coast of North America and commonly caught for food
- peytrel — the part of a horse's harness or the protective part that shields its chest
- phablet — a mobile device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet computer and is larger than a typical smartphone but not as large as a typical small tablet.
- philter — a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
- philtre — philter.
- piculet — any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
- pightle — a small enclosure; paddock
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pileate — having a pileus.
- piloted — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placket — the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off.
- plaited — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
- planate — having a plane or flat surface.
- plantae — the taxonomic kingdom comprising all plants.
- planter — a person who plants.
- plashet — a small, marshy pond
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plataea — an ancient city in Greece, in Boeotia: Greeks defeated Persians here 479 b.c.
- plateau — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- platted — a plait or braid.
- platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
- playlet — a short play.
- pleated — fabric: in folds