7-letter words containing l, a, p, e
- paneled — made up of wooden panels
- panicle — a compound raceme.
- pantile — a roofing tile straight in its length but curved in its width to overlap the next tile.
- pantler — a pantry servant
- papable — suitable or likely to become pope.
- papulae — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- parella — any of various lichens, esp Lecanora parella
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parnell — Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.
- parolee — a person who is released from prison on parole.
- parsley — an herb, Pertoselinum crispum, native to the Mediterranean, having either curled leaf clusters (French parsley) or flat compound leaves (Italian parsley) widely cultivated for use in garnishing or seasoning food. Compare parsley family.
- partlet — a garment for the neck and shoulders, usually ruffled and having a collar, worn in the 16th century.
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- patella — Anatomy. the flat, movable bone at the front of the knee; kneecap.
- patible — endurable; sufferable; tolerable
- pattles — paddle1 (def 11).
- pauline — a female given name.
- payable — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
- peafowl — any of several gallinaceous birds of the genera Pavo, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, and the East Indies, and Afropavo, of Africa.
- pealing — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- pearler — a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored. Compare cultured pearl.
- pearlin — a type of lace used to trim clothes
- pedlary — peddlery.
- pedocal — a soil rich in carbonates, especially those of lime.
- pedrail — a type of wheel designed for use on rough terrain, consisting of a chain around the wheel with flat discs attached to the chain
- pelagic — of or relating to the open seas or oceans.
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelican — any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
- peloria — regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- peltate — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- pen pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
- pen-pal — a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
- penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- peptalk — to give a pep talk to (a person, group, etc.).
- percale — a closely woven, smooth-finished, plain or printed cotton cloth, used for bed sheets, clothing, etc.
- peregal — equal
- pergola — an arbor formed of horizontal trelliswork supported on columns or posts, over which vines or other plants are trained.
- perilla — any of several aromatic Asian plants belonging to the genus Perilla, of the mint family, especially P. frutescens, which has become naturalized in the eastern U.S. and from which perilla oil is obtained.
- perlman — Itzhak [ee-tsahk,, it-zahk] /ˈi tsɑk,, ˈɪt zɑk/ (Show IPA), born 1945, U.S. violinist, born in Israel.
- peroral — administered or performed through the mouth, as surgery or administration of a drug.
- persalt — (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- petaled — one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
- petrale — a variety of flounder, native to the Pacific coast of North America and commonly caught for food
- phablet — a mobile device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet computer and is larger than a typical smartphone but not as large as a typical small tablet.
- phalera — a metal disk or boss worn on a man's breast as an ornament or as a military decoration or used to adorn the harness of a horse.
- phaseal — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.