8-letter words containing a, n, p
- plaining — to complain.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plan out — organize in detail
- planaria — freshwater or saltwater flatworms of the family Planariidae, that are widely used in laboratory work because of their ability to regenerate parts of the body easily
- planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- planet x — a planet (beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto) whose existence has been hypothesized but not confirmed.
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
- planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- planless — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- planosol — a type of intrazonal soil of humid or subhumid uplands having a strongly leached upper layer overlying a clay hardpan
- plantage — plants
- plantain — any plant of the genus Plantago, especially P. major, a weed with large, spreading leaves close to the ground and long, slender spikes of small flowers.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plantlet — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
- 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
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- pointman — soldier who walks at the front of an infantry patrol in combat
- 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.