8-letter words containing a, n, e, p
- pastance — an activity that passes time; recreation
- paste-on — that can be pasted or stuck on: canning jars with paste-on labels.
- pastness — the state or fact of being past.
- patented — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patentee — a person, group, or company that has been granted a patent.
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patentor — a person or official agency that grants patents.
- paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- pathname — the sequence of symbols and names indicating the location of a particular file in a hierarchical file system.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- patience — a female given name.
- patients — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- patinate — to cover or encrust with a patina.
- patinize — to coat with a patina
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronne — a woman who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
- pattened — any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- patterns — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- patulent — patulous
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pavement — a paved road, highway, etc.
- pavonine — of or like a peacock.
- pawnable — able to be pawned
- pay zone — A pay zone is a reservoir or part of a reservoir that contains hydrocarbons that can be extracted economically.
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- pea bean — a variety of kidney bean having a small, white seed, used dried for food.
- peacenet — One of the IGC networks. PeaceNet serves peace and social justice advocates around the world in such areas as human rights, disarmament, and international relations. A number of alternative news services provide a range of information about these and other topics from around the world. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://igc.apc.org/.
- peacenik — an activist or demonstrator who opposes war and military intervention; pacifist.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- 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
- pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
- peasants — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- peccancy — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pechenga — a village in the NW Russian Federation, on the Arctic Ocean W of Murmansk: ice-free all year; ceded by Finland 1944.
- 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.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pemmican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
- pen name — a pseudonym used by an author; nom de plume.
- 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.