8-letter words containing n, p, d
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- pagandom — the part of the world inhabited by pagans.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- paludine — marshy
- pan head — a tripod head permitting vertical or horizontal rotation of a camera to any position.
- pandanus — any plant of the genus Pandanus, having sword-shaped leaves arranged in a spiral, comprising the screw pines.
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- pandavas — (in the Mahabharata) the family of Arjuna, at war with their cousins, the Kauravas.
- pandemia — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pandered — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- panderer — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- panelled — A panelled room has decorative wooden panels covering its walls.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- paranoid — of, like, or suffering from paranoia.
- pardoner — a person who pardons.
- parented — a father or a mother.
- parkland — a grassland region with isolated or grouped trees, usually in temperate regions.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- passband — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- pat-down — an act or instance of passing the hands over the body of a clothed person to detect concealed weapons, drugs, etc.; frisking.
- patented — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- pattened — any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- 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.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
- pediment — (in classical architecture) a low gable, typically triangular with a horizontal cornice and raking cornices, surmounting a colonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a façade.
- peduncle — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- peg down — to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules
- pendency — the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
- pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pendulum — a body so suspended from a fixed point as to move to and fro by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- penfield — Wilder. 1891–1976, Canadian scientist, neurosurgeon, and writer born in the US; he developed a surgical treatment for epilepsy