7-letter words containing t, e, l, p
- pleater — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plectra — plectrum.
- pledget — a small, flat mass of lint, absorbent cotton, or the like, for use on a wound, sore, etc.
- plenist — a person who adheres to the philosophical theory of plenism
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- ploesti — a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- plotter — a person or thing that plots.
- plottie — a hot, spiced drink
- plotzed — drunk; intoxicated.
- plowter — to work or play in water or mud; dabble
- plumate — resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.
- plummet — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plunket — Saint Oliver. 1629–81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr; wrongly executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (1678). Feast day: July 11
- pluteal — relating to a pluteus
- pluteus — the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid.
- pointel — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- poitrel — a breastplate, specifically of horse's armour
- polecat — a European mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, having a blackish fur and ejecting a fetid fluid when attacked or disturbed. Compare ferret1 (def 1).
- polenta — (especially in Italian cooking) a thick mush of cornmeal.
- politer — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- pollent — strong
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- pontile — a metal bar used in glass-making
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- pothole — a deep hole; pit.
- potlike — resembling a pot, shaped like a pot
- potline — a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- poulter — a member of staff within e.g. a monastery or royal household, responsible for the supply of poultry
- prattle — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
- prelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- 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.
- 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).
- protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
- psalter — the Biblical book of Psalms.
- 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.
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- pulture — the right of foresters to claim food, drink, and lodging from the inhabitants of a forest for their own maintenance; provisions claimed in this way
- pustule — Pathology. a small elevation of the skin containing pus.
- replant — to plant again.
- replate — to put new plating on
- replete — abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually followed by with): a speech replete with sentimentality.
- reptile — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- resplit — to split again
- ripplet — a small ripple.