7-letter words containing n, a, p
- inpaint — to restore (a painting) by repainting damaged, faded, or obliterated sections.
- inphase — having the same phase.
- inscape — the unique essence or inner nature of a person, place, thing, or event, especially depicted in poetry or a work of art.
- inspans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inspan.
- inupiaq — a member of a group of Eskimos inhabiting northern Alaska along the Bering, Chukchi, and Arctic coasts, and some distance inland.
- inupiat — a member of an Eskimo people of N Alaska
- ispahan — Isfahan.
- jalapin — a resin that is one of the purgative principles of jalap.
- kampong — a small village or community of houses in Malay-speaking lands.
- kapteyn — Jacobus Cornelis [yah-koh-bys kawr-ney-lis] /yɑˈkoʊ büs kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1851–1922, Dutch astronomer.
- kidnaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kidnap.
- kirpans — Plural form of kirpan.
- knapped — Simple past tense and past participle of knap.
- knapper — One who knaps.
- kneecap — the patella.
- kneepad — a pad of leather, foam rubber, etc., as one worn by football or basketball players to protect the knee.
- kneepan — the kneecap or patella.
- lampang — a city in NW Thailand.
- lampern — The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
- lamping — a source of intellectual or spiritual light: the lamp of learning.
- lampion — a small lamp, especially a small oil lamp with a tinted glass chimney, formerly very popular as a source of illumination on carriages.
- lampoon — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- land up — any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- lapland — a region in N Norway, N Sweden, N Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the NW Russian Federation in Europe: inhabited by Lapps.
- lapping — (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
- lapsang — noting a kind of souchong tea with a strong smoky flavor.
- lapsing — Present participle of lapse.
- lapwing — a large Old World plover, Vanellus vanellus, having a long, slender, upcurved crest, an erratic, flapping flight, and a shrill cry.
- leaping — Present participle of leap.
- lepanto — Greek Návpaktos. a seaport in W Greece, on the Lepanto Strait: Turkish sea power destroyed here 1571.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- lipmann — Fritz Albert, 1899–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- lupanar — a brothel; whorehouse.
- maintop — a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.
- mandapa — (in south India, architecture) A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building.
- maniple — (in ancient Rome) a subdivision of a legion, consisting of 60 or 120 men.
- manipur — a state in NE India between Assam and Burma. 8620 sq. mi. (22,326 sq. km). Capital: Imphal.
- manpack — a compact load able to be carried by one person
- manrope — a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- manship — The characteristic of being a man; maleness; masculinity; manliness; manhood.
- mantapa — a porch or vestibule of a Brahman temple.
- mantrap — an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
- mapping — function
- matapan — Cape, a cape in S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.
- mindmap — Alternative spelling of mind map.
- misplan — (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
- morphan — A chemical compound, the base of the benzomorphan family of drugs.
- nagapie — any nocturnal primate of the family Galagidae, native to continental Africa
- nail up — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- naipaul — V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) born 1932, English novelist and nonfiction writer, born in Trinidad.