8-letter words containing l, a, p, n
- penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pentacle — pentagram.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- phalange — a phalanx.
- phthalin — any of a group of compounds obtained by the reduction of the phthaleins.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- pin rail — Theater. a rail on a fly gallery, wall, etc., holding two rows of pins or cleats for securing lines attached to scenery.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pinnacle — a lofty peak.
- pintable — a pinball machine
- placeman — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
- placemen — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
- 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.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
- plainant — a plaintiff
- plainful — sad and mournful
- 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