6-letter words containing n, a, p
- penman — a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
- pennal — a first-year student of a German Protestant university
- penta- — five
- pentad — a period of five years.
- petain — Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- petnap — to steal (a pet) for ransom or resale
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- pianic — yaws.
- piegan — a member of a subtribe of the Blackfoot Indians
- pieman — a seller of pies
- pigman — a male pig farmer
- pinang — Penang.
- pinard — wine.
- pinata — (in Mexico and Central America) a gaily decorated crock or papier-mâché figure filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above, especially during Christmas or birthday festivities, so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents.
- pindan — semiarid country; scrubland.
- pindar — 522?–443? b.c, Greek poet.
- pineal — resembling a pine cone in shape.
- pinnae — Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- pinnal — Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- pisano — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- pitman — a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- plains — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plaint — a complaint.
- plan 9 — (operating system) (Named after the classically bad, exceptionally low-budget SF film "Plan 9 from Outer Space") An operating system developed at Bell Labs by many researchers previously intimately involved with Unix. Plan 9 is superficially Unix-like but features far finer control over the name-space (on a per-process basis) and is inherently distributed and scalable. Plan 9 is divided according to service functions. CPU servers concentrate computing power into large multiprocessors; file servers provide repositories for storage and terminals give each user of the system a dedicated computer with bitmap screen and mouse on which to run a window system. The sharing of computing and file storage services provides a sense of community for a group of programmers, amortises costs and centralises and hence simplifies management and administration. The pieces communicate by a single protocol, built above a reliable data transport layer offered by an appropriate network, that defines each service as a rooted tree of files. Even for services not usually considered as files, the unified design permits some simplification. Each process has a local file name space that contains attachments to all services the process is using and thereby to the files in those services. One of the most important jobs of a terminal is to support its user's customised view of the entire system as represented by the services visible in the name space.
- plan a — a strategy or plan to be implemented if the original one proves impracticable or unsuccessful.
- plan b — a strategy or plan to be implemented if the original one proves impracticable or unsuccessful.
- planar — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planch — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- planck — Max Karl Ernst [mahks kahrl ernst] /mɑks kɑrl ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1858–1947, German physicist: Nobel prize 1918.
- planed — Carpentry. any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing, or for forming moldings, chamfers, rabbets, grooves, etc., by means of an inclined, adjustable blade moved along and against the piece being worked.
- planer — Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
- planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- plani- — plane, level, flat
- planit — Programming LANguage for Interaction and Teaching. CAI language. "PLANIT - A Flexible Language Designed for Computer-Human Interaction", S.L. Feingold, Proc FJCC 31, AFIPS (Fall 1967) Sammet 1969, p.706.
- plano- — indicating flatness or planeness
- planos — a town in N Texas.
- planta — the sole of the foot
- plante — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1929–86, Canadian ice-hockey player.
- plants — ["The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. 3-54097297-8].
- platan — plane4
- platen — a flat plate in a printing press for pressing the paper against the inked type or plate to produce an impression.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- plauen — a city in E Germany.
- pliant — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- pneuma — the vital spirit; the soul.
- pogany — Willy (William Andrew) 1882–1955, U.S. painter, stage designer, and illustrator; born in Hungary.
- pohang — a port city in SE South Korea.
- poland — a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. About 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Capital: Warsaw.
- pollan — any of several varieties of the whitefish Coregonus pollan that occur in lakes in Northern Ireland
- pomona — the ancient Roman goddess of the fruit of trees.