Partials is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 387 anagrams from letters in partials (aailprst).
1375-1425; late Middle English parcial biased, particular Middle French Late Latin partiālis pertaining to a part, equivalent to Latin parti- (stem of pars) part + -ā
This illuminated the entire room, but in a partial and dismal manner.
I had a partial engagement for Monday with John; but he'll let me off, to go to the Opera.
He underwent various operations, but derived only partial benefit from them.
How often, my dear, have you and I endeavoured to detect and censure this partial spirit in others?
Despite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.
This might be so had He Himself undertaken to give more than a partial view of truth.
The shooting left Brady with slurred speech, and with partial paralysis, which required him to use a wheelchair.
He majored in mathematical physics, studying mind-bending theories of quantum mechanics and partial differential equations.
Or perhaps Understanding, partial Ignorance, and Total Ignorance.
A better taxonomy would break us up by words like Acceptance, partial Denial, and Total Denial.