10-letter words starting with pa
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatalize — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palatogram — Phonetics. a diagram or photograph obtained through palatography.
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- pali canon — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palinopsia — a visual disorder in which the patient perceives a prolonged afterimage
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pallbearer — one of several persons who carry or attend the coffin at a funeral.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
- palliament — a long robe
- palliation — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palliative — serving to palliate.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
- palo santo — a South American tree, Bulnesia sarmienti, of the caltrop family, yielding a fragrant essential oil.
- palpebrate — having eyelids.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- palynology — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pan-german — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- panama hat — a hat made of finely plaited young leaves of the jipijapa, a palmlike plant of Central and South America.
- panamanian — a republic in S Central America. 28,575 sq. mi. (74,010 sq. km).
- panaritium — a whitlow
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
- pancratian — (in ancient Greece) of, or relating to, the pancratium
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- pancreato- — pancreas