6-letter words containing n, o, p
- payton — Walter ("Sweetness") 1954–99, U.S. football player.
- pedion — a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- pelion — Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- pennon — a distinctive flag in any of various forms, as tapering, triangular, or swallow-tailed, formerly one borne on the lance of a knight.
- pepino — a rounded, cone-shaped hill in a karstic area.
- pernio — chilblain.
- pernod — an aniseed-flavoured apéritif from France
- pernor — a person who takes or receives the rents, profits, or other benefit of an estate, lands, etc.
- perron — an outside platform upon which the entrance door of a building opens, with steps leading to it.
- person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- pheno- — showing or manifesting
- phenol — 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.
- phenom — a phenomenon, especially a young prodigy: a twelve-year-old tennis phenom.
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phoner — a person making a telephone call
- phoney — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phonic — of or relating to speech sounds.
- phono- — indicating a sound or voice
- phonon — a quantum of sound or vibratory elastic energy, being the analogue of a photon of electromagnetic energy.
- photon — a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, usually considered as an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of one. Symbol: γ.
- phylon — a group that has a genetic relationship or common origin, as a race.
- phyton — the smallest part of a stem, root, or leaf, that, when removed from a plant, may grow into a new plant.
- picong — any teasing or satirical banter, originally a verbal duel in song
- pigeon — (not in technical use) pidgin; pidgin English.
- pignon — the edible seed of the cones of certain pines, as the nut pine, Pinus pinea, of southern Europe.
- pilons — something extra; lagniappe.
- pin on — attach by pin
- pinbol — (language, games) A decision table language for controlling pinball machines used at Atari. PINBOL included a multitasking executive and an interpreter that worked on data structures compiled from condition:action lists.
- pinero — Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- pinion — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
- piniós — river in Thessaly, E Greece, flowing eastward to the Gulf of Salonika: 125 mi (201 km)
- pinole — a town in W California.
- pinyon — piñon (def 1).
- pinzon — Martín Alonzo [mahr-teen ah-lawn-thaw] /mɑrˈtin ɑˈlɔn θɔ/ (Show IPA), c1440–93? and his brother, Vicente Yáñez [bee-then-te yah-nyeth] /biˈθɛn tɛ ˈyɑ nyɛθ/ (Show IPA) c1460–1524?, Spanish navigators with Christopher Columbus.
- pioned — abounding in wild flowers
- pionic — relating to or involving a pion
- pisano — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- plano- — indicating flatness or planeness
- planos — a town in N Texas.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- plonge — to clean (drains) by action of the tide
- plonko — an alcoholic, esp one who drinks wine
- pluton — any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- podunk — any small and insignificant or inaccessible town or village: After a year in the big city, I was ready to move back to Podunk.
- pogany — Willy (William Andrew) 1882–1955, U.S. painter, stage designer, and illustrator; born in Hungary.
- pohang — a port city in SE South Korea.
- pointe — the tip of the toe.
- points — the two electrical contacts that make or break the current flow in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine
- pointy — having a comparatively sharp point: The elf had pointy little ears.