Words that start with 'p' and contain 'lis'


With a wide variety of choices (400 entries), the options are infinite.

5 letter words

  • palis
  • pilis
  • pliss
  • polis
  • pulis

6 letter words

  • palish
  • plisky
  • plisse
  • polish
  • psalis
  • pulish

7 letter words

  • palisfy
  • palisse
  • parlish
  • parulis
  • paulism
  • paulist
  • peelism
  • pelisse
  • phallis
  • phillis
  • phyllis
  • pyralis
  • pliskie
  • plisses
  • polista
  • pollist
  • popolis
  • publish

8 letter words

  • palisade
  • palisado
  • palliser
  • panelist
  • pantelis
  • papalise
  • papalism
  • papalist
  • parolist
  • paulista
  • pearlish
  • pedalism
  • pedalist
  • pelisses
  • penalise
  • penalist
  • peoplish
  • petalism
  • phallism
  • phallist
  • physalis
  • pilulist
  • pliskies
  • polished
  • polisher
  • polishes
  • polisman
  • polistes
  • pollists
  • populism
  • populist
  • propolis
  • psellism
  • ptyalism
  • pugilism
  • pugilist
  • pullisee
  • purplish

9 letter words

  • pachoulis
  • palisaded
  • palisades
  • panelists
  • panellist
  • panoplist
  • panpolism
  • pastelist
  • penalised
  • penalises
  • petrolist
  • phallisms
  • phallists
  • philister
  • philistia
  • pianolist
  • pilpulist
  • pinealism
  • pluralise
  • pluralism
  • pluralist
  • pluvialis
  • polishers
  • polishing
  • polissoir
  • populisms
  • populists
  • preenlist
  • prepolish
  • proclisis
  • profilist
  • ptyalisms
  • published
  • publisher
  • publishes
  • puerilism
  • pugilisms
  • pugilists

10 letter words

  • palatalism
  • palisading
  • palisadoed
  • palisadoes
  • palisander
  • panthelism
  • papalistic
  • papicolist
  • parabolise
  • parabolist
  • parnellism
  • partialise
  • partialism
  • partialist
  • paschalist
  • pastelists
  • pastellist
  • pectoralis
  • penalising
  • pentapolis
  • pergelisol
  • personalis
  • philistian
  • philistine
  • physoclist
  • pluralised
  • pluraliser
  • polishable
  • polishedly
  • polishings
  • polishment
  • populistic
  • porkopolis
  • portcullis
  • predialist
  • prepublish
  • propolises
  • prorealism
  • prorealist
  • psellismus
  • publishers
  • publishing
  • pugilistic

11 letter words

  • palisadoing
  • pansciolism
  • pansciolist
  • parabolised
  • parallelise
  • parallelism
  • parallelist
  • parentalism
  • parochialis
  • partialised
  • pastellists
  • pastoralism
  • pastoralist
  • paternalism
  • paternalist
  • patriofelis
  • pectoralist
  • penalisable
  • personalism
  • personalist
  • philatelism
  • philatelist
  • philistines
  • philistinic
  • philocalist
  • philofelist
  • physicalism
  • physicalist
  • physoclisti
  • piccalillis
  • pilpulistic
  • pyramidalis
  • plebicolist
  • pluralising
  • pluralistic
  • pointillism
  • pointillist
  • polythelism
  • portugalism
  • possibilism
  • possibilist
  • praedialist
  • prenatalist
  • primevalism
  • probabilism

12 letter words

  • palistrophia
  • pandiabolism
  • pansexualism
  • pansexualist
  • parabolising
  • parabotulism
  • parallelised
  • parasyphilis
  • parochialise
  • parochialism
  • parochialist
  • partialising
  • partialistic
  • penalisation
  • perpetualism
  • perpetualist
  • philatelists
  • philistinely
  • philistinian
  • philistinish
  • philistinism
  • philistinize
  • philobiblist
  • physoclistic
  • pictorialise
  • pictorialism
  • pictorialist
  • pyramidalism
  • pyramidalist
  • pointilliste
  • pointillists
  • polishedness
  • politicalism
  • polytonalism
  • portcullised
  • portcullises
  • portiomollis
  • practicalism
  • practicalist
  • preestablish
  • prefeudalism
  • presocialism
  • presocialist
  • prestabilism
  • prorealistic

13 letter words

  • palaeophilist
  • pantagruelism
  • pantagruelist
  • parallelising
  • parallelistic
  • parochialised
  • paroxysmalist
  • paternalistic
  • periodicalism
  • periodicalist
  • personalistic
  • phenomenalism
  • phenomenalist
  • philatelistic
  • physicalistic
  • physiophilist
  • physoclistous
  • pictorialised
  • pluralisation
  • pointillistic
  • polydactylism
  • polyglobulism
  • polymetallism
  • polynomialism
  • polynomialist
  • portcullising
  • preaccomplish
  • precapitalist
  • preenlistment
  • prespecialist
  • primordialism
  • proalcoholism
  • probabilistic
  • procapitalism
  • procapitalist
  • proidealistic
  • promonopolist
  • proverbialism
  • proverbialist
  • provincialism
  • provincialist
  • prudentialism
  • prudentialist
  • psychorealism
  • psychorealist

14 letter words

  • pannationalism
  • parabolicalism
  • paradoxicalism
  • parochialising
  • patriarchalism
  • pentadactylism
  • pentecostalism
  • pentecostalist
  • perfectibilism
  • perfectibilist
  • pharmacopolist
  • phenomenalists
  • pictorialising
  • piscatorialist
  • platycephalism
  • preenlistments
  • preestablished
  • preestablishes
  • premedievalism
  • procapitalists
  • proclericalism
  • pronationalism
  • pronationalist
  • proritualistic
  • prosyndicalism
  • prosyndicalist
  • pseudoallelism
  • pseudosyphilis
  • pteridophilism
  • pteridophilist
  • pugilistically

15 letter words

  • pamprodactylism
  • pantagruelistic
  • parallelisation
  • pastoralisation
  • pathometabolism
  • paurometabolism
  • perceptionalism
  • personalisation
  • phenomenalistic
  • photojournalism
  • photojournalist
  • plagiocephalism
  • pluralistically
  • plurilingualism
  • plurilingualist
  • possessionalism
  • possessionalist
  • precapitalistic
  • preestablishing
  • preferentialism
  • preferentialist
  • prejournalistic
  • processionalist
  • professionalise
  • professionalism
  • professionalist
  • professorialism
  • projournalistic
  • promonopolistic
  • proportionalism
  • providentialism
  • pseudochrysalis
  • pseudorealistic
  • psychorealistic

16 letter words

  • panphenomenalism
  • perissodactylism
  • photojournalists
  • pictorialisation
  • premillennialise
  • premillennialism
  • premillennialist
  • preternaturalism
  • preternaturalist
  • proceremonialism
  • proceremonialist
  • professionalised
  • professionalists
  • pronationalistic
  • pseudomoralistic
  • pteridophilistic

17 letter words

  • pantagruelistical
  • paternalistically
  • philosophunculist
  • physicalistically
  • photojournalistic
  • postmillennialism
  • postmillennialist
  • preaccomplishment
  • premillennialised
  • presentationalism
  • probabilistically
  • professionalising
  • promatrimonialist
  • pseudoparallelism
  • pseudosocialistic

18 letter words

  • platystencephalism
  • premillennialising

19 letter words

  • phenomenalistically
  • professionalisation

20 letter words

  • proconstitutionalism
  • proindustrialisation

24 letter words

  • pseudointernationalistic

How many letters are in the longest word on this list?
'Pseudointernationalistic' is the biggest word that Dictionarypedia could construct.

Is there any word on this page that sticks out as the most common?
Our database says the most popular word in the dictionary that start with 'p' and include 'lis' is 'published'!

What word from this list is the most interesting?
A good example of a strange word from this page is 'provincialism'. According to the dictionary, 'provincialism' means "A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold.".

In Scrabble, what's the highest number of points possible from this list of words that start with 'p' and include 'lis'?
With numerous words from which to select, we would suggest picking 'physalis' which scores 16 points in total.

What's the total number of words you're able to assemble using this combination of letters?
From this page of words that start with 'p' and include 'lis', there are 400 unique entries which are possible overall.