8-letter words containing n, i, p, t
- interpel — (transitive, obsolete) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- intrepid — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- iphition — (in the Iliad) a Trojan warrior slain by Achilles.
- keep nit — to keep watch, esp during illegal activity
- kingpost — vertical post connecting the apex of a triangular roof truss to the tie beam
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- midpoint — a point at or near the middle of, or equidistant from, both ends, as of a line: the midpoint of a boundary.
- mispaint — to paint badly or wrongly
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- mispoint — (transitive) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
- misprint — a mistake in printing, as an instance of printing a letter or word other than that intended.
- misspent — spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
- naphtali — the sixth son of Jacob and Bilhah. Gen. 30:7,8.
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- nepotist — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- netpipes — (networking) A package by Robert Forsman <[email protected]> to manipulate BSD Unix TCP/IP stream sockets. The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. It can also simplify client-server code by allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter/service.
- netsplit — netburp
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nit-lamp — jacklight.
- nit-pick — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
- nitpicky — Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
- nonpoint — of or relating to a source of pollution that is not readily and specifically identifiable, as water runoff.
- nonprint — of, relating to, or consisting of other than printed matter: Slide shows, slide-tape presentations, and video are nonprint media.
- nopalito — an edible branch (or cladode) of various cacti of the genus Opuntia (prickly pear), commonly used as a vegetable
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nut pine — piñon (def 1).
- nutpicks — Plural form of nutpick.
- offprint — Also called separate. a reprint of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- open pit — An open pit is a mine where the coal, metal, or minerals are near the surface and underground passages are not needed.
- open-pit — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
- oppilant — blocking, hindering, or obstructing
- optation — (obsolete) The act of optating; a wish.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- optional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- optionee — a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- outpoint — to excel in number of points, as in a competition or contest.
- pacation — the act of making peace
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.