10-letter words starting with PAL

10-letter words 35

• palliativeremedy that alleviates pain without curing
• pallbearerone of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
• palindromea word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
• palanquinsa closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers
• palimpsesta manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
• palatinatea territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine
• palpitatescause to throb or beat rapidly
• palaveringspeak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
• palpationsa method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)
• palletised
• palliassesmattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust
• palliationeasing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
• paltrinessworthlessness due to insignificance
• palynology
• palisadingsurround with a wall in order to fortify
• palliatinglessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
• palmerworm
• palpitatedcause to throb or beat rapidly
• palaestrae
• palatalizepronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate
• palatially
• palenessesunnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
• palimoniessupport paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends
• palladiumsa silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
• palletises
• palletized
• palletizer
• palletizes
• palliators
• pallidnessunnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
• palmations
• palmettoesany of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
• palmitates
• paloverdesa thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves
• palsgraves(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands