10-letter words containing t, i, p, l
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- papillated — having papillae
- papillitis — the inflammation of a papilla
- papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- papulation — the formation or development of papules
- paralation — PARALlel reLATION. Sabot, MIT 1987. A framework for parallel programming. A "field" is an array of objects, placed at different sites. A paralation is a group of fields, defining nearness between field elements. Operations can be performed in parallel on every site of a paralation.
- parentlike — a father or a mother.
- parimutuel — a system of betting on races in which those backing the winners divide, in proportion to their wagers, the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the track operators, taxes, etc.
- parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
- parnellite — Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.
- parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- partial to — fond of; having a liking for
- partialism — a theory or view that does not take into account all the facts
- partialist — a person who is partial
- partiality — the state or character of being partial.
- partialize — to bias.
- participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
- particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- partisanly — in a partisan manner
- party girl — a girl or woman who is interested in little else besides attending parties.
- party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
- party list — of or relating to a system of voting in which people vote for a party rather than for a candidate. Parties are assigned the number of seats which reflects their share of the vote
- pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
- patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
- patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
- patrialism — (in Britain formerly) the policy regarding conferment of patrial status
- patriality — (in Britain formerly) the right to patrial status
- patrialize — to give a legal right to enter and stay in a country
- patricidal — the act of killing one's own father.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- patrilocal — virilocal.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- payability — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
- peanut oil — a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
- pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelletised — to make or form (concentrated ore) into pellets.
- pelletizer — a machine for making pellets
- pelvimeter — an instrument used to measure the pelvis
- pelvimetry — measurement of the diameters of the female pelvis, especially the birth canal.
- penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
- penitently — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.