8-letter words containing n, o, p, l
- optional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
- overplan — to plan excessively
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palomino — a horse with a golden coat, a white mane and tail, and often white markings on the face and legs, developed chiefly in the southwestern U.S.
- pamplona — a city in N Spain.
- pan loaf — a loaf of bread with a light crust all the way round
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- pantonal — marked by or using pantonality.
- papillon — one of a breed of toy spaniels having a long, silky coat and large, erect ears held so that they resemble the wings of a butterfly.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- patronal — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pavilion — a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
- pavillon — the bell of a wind instrument.
- pemoline — a synthetic, weak, central nervous system stimulant, C 9 H 8 N 2 O 2 , with sympathomimetic activity, used as an adjunct in the management of hyperkinetic behavior disorders.
- penelope — Classical Mythology. the wife of Odysseus, who remained faithful to him during his long absence at Troy.
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- penoncel — pencel.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- peopling — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- picoline — any of three isomeric methyl derivatives of pyridine having the formula C 6 H 7 N, obtained from coal tar as a colorless oily liquid with a strong odor.
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pignolis — pine nut (def 1).
- pilipino — a language essentially the same as Tagalog that has been adopted as the official national language of the Philippines.
- piloting — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- piloxing — a system of exercise combining elements of Pilates and boxing
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pindolol — a synthetic beta blocker, C 1 4 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used in the management of hypertension.
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- plan out — organize in detail
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- planosol — a type of intrazonal soil of humid or subhumid uplands having a strongly leached upper layer overlying a clay hardpan
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum