9-letter words that end in al
- orificial — (medicine) Of or relating to the orifices of the body.
- overpedal — to play (the piano) with excessive use of the pedals
- pacifical — having an appeasing nature
- pactional — relating to an agreement or a bargain
- palpebral — of or relating to the eyelids.
- pansexual — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- paradisal — paradisiacal.
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- paralegal — an attorney's assistant, not admitted to the practice of law but trained to perform certain legal tasks.
- paranasal — situated near the nasal cavities.
- parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- parodical — having or of the nature of a parody.
- passional — of, relating to, or marked by passion.
- pectineal — of or relating to the pectineus muscle or the pubic bone
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- percental — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- perennial — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- perpetual — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perradial — relating to the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
- petechial — pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by petechiae.
- petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- phallical — of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
- pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- piecemeal — piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually: to work piecemeal.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pilonidal — noting or pertaining to a growth of hair in a dermoid cyst or in the deeper layers of the skin.
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- piratical — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- placental — Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
- plaustral — relating to wagons
- ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
- polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- polyaxial — having more than one axis
- polygonal — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polytonal — marked by or using polytonality.
- polyzonal — having many zones
- popliteal — of or relating to the ham, or part of the leg back of the knee.
- portrayal — the act of portraying.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.
- postnatal — subsequent to childbirth: postnatal infection.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- pot metal — an alloy of copper and lead, formerly used for making plumbing fixtures, bearings, etc.
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- practical — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.