9-letter words containing n, a, i, l, p
- pinelands — the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- pink lady — a cocktail made with gin, grenadine, and the white of eggs, shaken and strained before serving.
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- pintailed — having a tapered tail
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
- placating — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placation — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placentia — a town in S California.
- plain lap — lap joint.
- plain tex — (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- plainness — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plainsman — an inhabitant of the plains.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- plainview — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- plan file — (operating system) On Unix systems that support finger, the ".plan" file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a sig block). See also Hacking X for Y. A later innovation in plan files was the introduction of "scrolling plan files" which are one-dimensional animations made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the finger command will (for security reasons; see letterbomb) not pass the escape character. Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running, funniest, and most original animations. A compiler (ASP) is available on Usenet for producing them. Typical animation components include: See also twirling baton.
- plan view — plan (def 4).
- planarian — any of various free-swimming, mostly freshwater flatworms of the class Turbellaria, having an undulating or sluglike motion: popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts.
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planation — the process whereby an irregular land surface is made flat or level by erosion.
- planeside — the area on either side of an airplane.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- plannings — the act or process of making a plan or plans.
- plantlike — 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.
- plantling — a young plant
- planuloid — relating to a planula
- platinate — Chemistry. a salt of platinic acid.
- platinize — to coat or plate with metallic platinum.
- platinoid — resembling platinum: the platinoid elements.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonize — to follow or adopt the doctrines of Plato.
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- plein-air — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- pleonexia — excessive greed
- plicating — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- plication — the act or procedure of folding.
- plotinian — of, relating to, or in accordance with Plotinus or his philosophy.
- plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out