8-letter words containing n, a, i, l
- 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.
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- platinic — of or containing platinum, especially in the tetravalent state.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- prolamin — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- propanil — a postemergence herbicide, C 9 H 9 Cl 2 NO, used for weed control on potatoes, rice, and other crop plants.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- qianlong — Ch'ien Lung.
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- 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.
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quinella — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quiniela — quinella.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- rabbling — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
- raddling — Present participle of raddle.
- raffling — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- ragingly — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- railings — a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts
- rainfall — a fall or shower of rain.
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- rankling — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- rattling — that rattles: a rattling door.
- raveling — a tangle or complication.
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- re-align — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.