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8-letter words containing n, o, p, l

  • interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
  • jalapeno — a hot green or orange-red pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum, used especially in Mexican cooking.
  • kilopond — the force exerted by one kilogram in standard gravity
  • lampions — Plural form of lampion.
  • lampoons — Plural form of lampoon.
  • lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
  • lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
  • lay open — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leporine — of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.
  • leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
  • lin piao — Lin Biao.
  • linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
  • lionship — The state of being a lion, or famous person in society.
  • lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
  • loaf pan — a rectangular metal or glass pan for baking cakes, breads, meatloaf, etc.
  • long hop — a short-pitched ball, which can easily be hit
  • long pig — (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.
  • longjump — jumping contest decided by length
  • longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
  • longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
  • loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
  • lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
  • lycopene — a red crystalline substance, C 40 H 56 , that is the main pigment of certain fruits, as the tomato and paprika, and is a precursor to carotene in plant biosynthesis.
  • millpond — a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
  • monopole — magnetic monopole.
  • monopoly — exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
  • mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
  • n-prolog — Prolog extended with explicit negation. Dov Gabbay <[email protected]>.
  • naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
  • neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
  • neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
  • nephelo- — clouds, cloudy
  • neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
  • nol-pros — to end by a nolle prosequi.
  • nonpapal — not of or related to the pope
  • nonpolar — containing no permanently dipolar molecules; lacking a dipole.
  • nonuplet — One of a group of nine, especially such a multiple birth.
  • nopalito — an edible branch (or cladode) of various cacti of the genus Opuntia (prickly pear), commonly used as a vegetable
  • norplant — a contraceptive implant for women surgically inserted under the skin of the upper arm so as to release progesterone or various other steroid hormones gradually over a period of several years
  • nslookup — (networking)   A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
  • off plan — (of a new building) considered with reference to its plans, before it has been built
  • oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
  • olongapo — a port in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
  • olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
  • openable — capable of being opened.
  • openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
  • openhole — Openhole describes an uncased (=having no casing or liner) part of a well.
  • opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
  • oppilant — blocking, hindering, or obstructing
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