8-letter words containing a, l, i, e, n
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- minneola — a juicy, pear-shaped variety of tangelo.
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- nail bed — the dermis and epidermis under a fingernail or toenail.
- nail set — a short rod of steel used to drive a nail below or flush with a surface.
- nailfile — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- nailhead — the enlarged top of a nail, usually flattened but sometimes rounded.
- nainsell — own self
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- nasalise — Alternative spelling of nasalize.
- nasalize — to pronounce as a nasal sound.
- nathalie — a female given name.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- naxalite — a member of an extreme Maoist group in India that originated in 1967 in West Bengal and which employs tactics of agrarian terrorism and direct action
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- ngaliema — Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5119 meters).
- nodalize — to make something nodal or concentrated at a point
- noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
- nonideal — (of a gas or solution) differing in behavior from that of an ideal gas or solution.
- novalike — Resembling a nova or some aspect of one.
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- oriental — (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
- overlain — past participle of overlie.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- paludine — marshy
- paneling — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pinnacle — a lofty peak.
- pintable — a pinball machine