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8-letter words containing n, a, p

  • photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
  • phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
  • phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
  • phthalin — any of a group of compounds obtained by the reduction of the phthaleins.
  • piacenza — a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
  • pianette — a small upright piano.
  • piazzian — (in poems by Keats) of or referring to a piazza
  • picarian — a bird belonging to the picariae division of birds, which is extensive and includes woodpeckers, toucans and kingfishers among many more
  • picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
  • picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • piccanin — a Black African child
  • 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 mark — the circular indentation on the upper part of a type body, made by the pin that ejects the type from the caster.
  • 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.
  • pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
  • pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
  • pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
  • pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
  • pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
  • pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
  • pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
  • pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
  • pink tea — a formal tea or reception.
  • pinkiang — Older Spelling. former name of Harbin.
  • pinnacle — a lofty peak.
  • pinnati- — pinnate or pinnately
  • pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
  • pintable — a pinball machine
  • piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
  • piranesi — Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
  • pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
  • pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
  • pit-sawn — (of timber, esp formerly) sawn into planks by hand in a saw-pit
  • pitcairn — British island in Polynesia, in the South Pacific: 1.8 sq mi (4.6 sq km); pop. 54
  • pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
  • pittance — a small amount or share.
  • pivotman — a pivot (def 7b).
  • placeman — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
  • placemen — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
  • placenta — Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
  • 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
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