7-letter words containing n, i, p, l
- pilcorn — a type of oat (Avena nuda) with an edible seed that can be husked easily
- pile on — heap
- pilings — a mass of building piles considered collectively.
- pilinut — type of nut found in the Philippines
- pilling — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- pillion — a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, especially as a seat for a woman.
- pilsner — a pale, light lager beer.
- pinball — 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.
- pinfold — a pound for stray animals.
- pingler — someone who fiddles with their food and eats little of it
- pinhole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pinitol — a white, crystalline, inositol derivative, C 7 H 1 4 O 6 , obtained from the resin of the sugar pine.
- pinnula — a pinnule.
- pinnule — Zoology. a part or organ resembling a barb of a feather, a fin, or the like. a finlet.
- pinocle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pintail — a long-necked river duck, Anas acuta, of the Old and New Worlds, having long and narrow middle tail feathers.
- pinwale — (of a fabric, especially corduroy) having very thin wales.
- placing — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- plainer — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plainly — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- planing — 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.
- planish — to give a smooth finish to (metal) by striking lightly with a smoothly faced hammer or die.
- plantin — Christophe [kree-stawf] /kriˈstɔf/ (Show IPA), c1520–1589, French typographer.
- plasmin — fibrinolysin.
- platina — a native alloy of platinum with palladium, iridium, osmium, etc.
- plating — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platini — Michel. born 1955, French footballer, manager, and administrator; scored 41 goals in 72 games for France (1976–87); European Footballer of the Year (1983–85); president of UEFA (2007–2015)
- playing — the act of taking part in a game or sport
- plenipo — a plenipotentiary diplomat
- plenish — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- plenism — the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
- plenist — a person who adheres to the philosophical theory of plenism
- plerion — a filled-centre supernova remnant in which radiation is emitted by the centre as well as the shell
- pliancy — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- plinian — ("the Elder"; Gaius Plinius Secundus) a.d. 23–79, Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer.
- plinker — a person who shoots a handgun recreationally
- plosion — the forced release of the occlusive phase of a plosive, whether voiceless or voiced, either audible due to frication or inaudible due to a contiguous following consonant. Also called explosion. Compare implosion (def 2).
- plowing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploying — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- plug in — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
- plug-in — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
- pluming — a feather.
- pluvian — a crocodile bird
- pointal — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- pointel — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- polling — poll
- polonia — the Polish-American community in a given place outside Poland
- pontile — a metal bar used in glass-making
- pooling — Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.
- potline — a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.