8-letter words containing d, e, p, n, i
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- oedipean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Oedipus or the Oedipus complex.
- open die — a die of flat, concave, or hollow V shape that only minimally restricts lateral flow.
- openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- paludine — marshy
- pandemia — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- 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.
- peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
- pediment — (in classical architecture) a low gable, typically triangular with a horizontal cornice and raking cornices, surmounting a colonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a façade.
- pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
- penfield — Wilder. 1891–1976, Canadian scientist, neurosurgeon, and writer born in the US; he developed a surgical treatment for epilepsy
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- petdingo — (tool) An Estelle to C++ translator.
- piedmont — a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
- piedness — the condition or quality of being pied, for example in an animal
- pin feed — sprocket feed
- pin-eyed — (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma in the mouth of the corolla, on the end of a long style with the stamens lower in the tube
- pine end — the gable or gable end of a building
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pinewood — the wood of a pine.
- pinioned — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
- pinkened — to grow or turn pink.
- pinniped — belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivores with limbs adapted to an aquatic life, including the seals and walruses.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pledging — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
- poseidon — the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes, identified by the Romans with Neptune.
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- pyrenoid — a spherical protein structure found within chloroplasts of certain algae and hornworts.
- pyridine — a colorless, flammable, liquid organic base, C 5 H 5 N, having a disagreeable odor, usually obtained from coal or synthesized from acetaldehyde and ammonia: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
- red pine — a pine, Pinus resinosa, of northeastern North America, having needles in groups of two and reddish bark.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- serendip — Arabic name of Sri Lanka.
- sidespin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate in course about its vertical axis.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- speeding — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- spending — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spindled — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- splendid — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- springed — a snare for catching small game.