8-letter words containing a, t, e, n
- penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.
- perceant — piercing; penetrating
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pet name — a name or a term of address used to express affection for a person, thing, etc.
- pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- petanque — a form of lawn bowling originating in France, usually played on rough ground using steel balls.
- peterman — a safecracker.
- petnaper — a person who thieves a pet in order to exact money in exchange for its return or to sell it
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- pianette — a small upright piano.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
- pink tea — a formal tea or reception.
- pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
- pintable — a pinball machine
- pittance — a small amount or share.
- placenta — Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
- 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
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- plantage — plants
- 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
- plateman — a person who makes and sells plate armour
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- potentia — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.
- pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- preplant — occurring before planting
- pretrain — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- ptomaine — any of a class of foul-smelling nitrogenous substances produced by bacteria during putrefaction of animal or plant protein: formerly thought to be toxic.
- punctate — marked with points or dots; having minute spots or depressions.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quartern — a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.