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9-letter words starting with p

  • paintable — easily painted
  • paintball — a game in which players mark their opponents with colored gelatin capsules shot out of an air gun.
  • painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
  • paintress — a female painter
  • paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
  • pair bond — the exclusive relationship formed between a male and a female, esp in some species of animals and birds during courtship and breeding
  • pair-bond — (of a mating couple) to form and maintain a pair bond.
  • paisiello — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1741–1816, Italian composer.
  • pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
  • pakistani — a native or inhabitant of Pakistan.
  • palaeosol — an ancient soil horizon
  • palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
  • palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
  • palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
  • palanquin — (formerly in India and other Eastern countries) a passenger conveyance, usually for one person, consisting of a covered or boxlike litter carried by means of poles resting on the shoulders of several men.
  • palatable — acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory: palatable food.
  • palaverer — a person who palavers
  • palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
  • palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
  • paleocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, from 65 to 55 million years ago, and characterized by a proliferation of mammals.
  • paleogene — noting or pertaining to the earlier part of the Cenozoic Era, in the system adopted by some geologists, occurring from 65 to 25 million years ago and including the Oligocene, Eocene, and Paleocene epochs: corresponds to the earlier part of the Tertiary Period in the system generally used in the U.S. Compare Neogene.
  • paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
  • paleology — the study of antiquities.
  • paleozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 570 million and 230 million years ago, characterized by the advent of fish, insects, and reptiles.
  • palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
  • palilalia — a speech disorder in which a word or phrase is rapidly repeated
  • palillogy — the repetition of a phrase or word
  • palisades — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
  • pall mall — a street in central London, noted for its many clubs
  • pall-like — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
  • pall-mall — a street in London, England, famed for its clubs.
  • palladian — pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.
  • palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
  • palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
  • palleting — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
  • palletize — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • palliasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
  • palm chat — a passerine bird, Dulus dominicus, of Hispaniola and Gonave, in the West Indies, noted for its huge, communal nest, occupied by several pairs of birds.
  • palm crab — coconut crab.
  • palm leaf — the leaf or frond of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, thatch, mats, etc.
  • palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
  • palmately — radiating from a central point
  • palmation — a palmate state or formation.
  • palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
  • palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
  • palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
  • palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
  • palo alto — a city in W California, SE of San Francisco.
  • paloverde — a spiny, desert shrub, Cercidium floridum, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having green bark.
  • palpation — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
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