8-letter words containing n, a, p, o, l
- openable — capable of being opened.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- oppilant — blocking, hindering, or obstructing
- optional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- overplan — to plan excessively
- 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.
- 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.
- pamplona — a city in N Spain.
- pan loaf — a loaf of bread with a light crust all the way round
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- 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.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- pantonal — marked by or using pantonality.
- 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.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- patronal — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- 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.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- plan out — organize in detail
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- planosol — a type of intrazonal soil of humid or subhumid uplands having a strongly leached upper layer overlying a clay hardpan
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- playdown — a play-off.
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- 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.
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- polyzoan — bryozoan
- ponderal — relating to weight
- 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.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc