8-letter words containing a, l, p, n
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platanna — an aquatic South African frog
- platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
- plateman — a person who makes and sells plate armour
- platinic — of or containing platinum, especially in the tetravalent state.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- playdown — a play-off.
- playland — an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- polyzoan — bryozoan
- ponderal — relating to weight
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- postanal — of, pertaining to, involving, or near the anus.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- pozzolan — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- preclean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- prenasal — a bone in the front of the nose
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- preplant — occurring before planting
- prerenal — in front of the kidney
- prolamin — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- pronotal — relating to an insect's pronotum
- propanil — a postemergence herbicide, C 9 H 9 Cl 2 NO, used for weed control on potatoes, rice, and other crop plants.
- propanol — a colourless alcohol
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- prunella — a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.
- psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.