8-letter words that end in l
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- pay deal — a negotiation or agreement concerning pay or salary
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pelagial — the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.
- pelletal — of, relating to, or resembling a pellet
- penoncel — pencel.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- pep pill — a pill, tablet, or capsule that contains a stimulant drug, especially amphetamine.
- per mill — per thousand.
- per-oral — administered or performed through the mouth, as surgery or administration of a drug.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- 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.
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- philomel — the nightingale.
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- pickerel — any of several small species of pike, as Esox niger (chain pickerel) and E. americanus americanus (redfin pickerel) of eastern North America.
- pictural — a picture
- pigswill — slops for feeding swine
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin rail — Theater. a rail on a fly gallery, wall, etc., holding two rows of pins or cleats for securing lines attached to scenery.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- pindolol — a synthetic beta blocker, C 1 4 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used in the management of hypertension.
- pinswell — a small boil
- pinwheel — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- pit bull — American Staffordshire terrier.
- pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
- plainful — sad and mournful
- planosol — a type of intrazonal soil of humid or subhumid uplands having a strongly leached upper layer overlying a clay hardpan
- plastral — of or relating to a plastron.
- plateful — the amount that a plate will hold.
- playbill — a program or announcement of a play.
- playgirl — a woman who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- plimsoll — load-line mark.
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- poloidal — relating to a type of magnetic field
- polypill — a proposed medication intended to reduce the likelihood of heart attacks and strokes, containing doses of different drugs to lower blood cholesterol, control blood pressure, and reduce the clotting tendency of the blood
- ponderal — relating to weight
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.