7-letter words containing n, o, p, l
- pile on — heap
- pillion — a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, especially as a seat for a woman.
- pinfold — a pound for stray animals.
- 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.
- pinocle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- plafond — a ceiling, whether flat or arched, especially one of decorative character.
- plan on — intend to
- plasmon — the sum total of plasmagenes in a cell
- platoon — a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- play on — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plenipo — a plenipotentiary diplomat
- pleonal — relating to the abdomen of a crustacean
- plerion — a filled-centre supernova remnant in which radiation is emitted by the centre as well as the shell
- pleuron — the lateral plate or plates of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- plonker — idiot, foolish person
- 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.
- plowman — a man who plows.
- ploying — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- poblano — a dark-green, mild or slightly pungent chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum used in cooking.
- pointal — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- pointel — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- polaron — a kind of electron
- polenta — (especially in Italian cooking) a thick mush of cornmeal.
- pollent — strong
- polling — poll
- pollman — a graduate of Cambridge University who passed without honours
- polonia — the Polish-American community in a given place outside Poland
- polyene — a hydrocarbon containing two or more double bonds, often conjugated.
- polygon — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polynya — an area of unfrozen sea water surrounded by ice.
- 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.
- poulenc — Francis [frahn-sees] /frɑ̃ˈsis/ (Show IPA), 1899–1963, French composer and pianist.
- poundal — the foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one foot per second per second on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: pdl.
- proline — an alcohol-soluble amino acid, C 4 H 9 NHCOOH, occurring in high concentration in collagen. Symbol: P. Abbreviation: Pro;
- prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- pull on — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull-on — the act of pulling or drawing.
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- purloin — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- simplon — a mountain pass in S Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6592 feet (2010 meters) high.
- slip-on — made without buttons, straps, zippers, etc., so as to be put on easily and quickly: a slip-on blouse; slip-on shoes.
- sloping — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- spleno- — the spleen
- spondyl — a vertebra or something like a vertebra
- sponsal — relating to marriage
- topline — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.