8-letter words containing n, a, i, l
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palmitin — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 1 H 9 8 O 6 , prepared from glycerol and palmitic acid: used in the manufacture of soap.
- palomino — a horse with a golden coat, a white mane and tail, and often white markings on the face and legs, developed chiefly in the southwestern U.S.
- paludine — marshy
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- paneling — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- papillon — one of a breed of toy spaniels having a long, silky coat and large, erect ears held so that they resemble the wings of a butterfly.
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- pavilion — a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
- pavillon — the bell of a wind instrument.
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- 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.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- 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.
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- 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.