5-letter words containing n, p
- paton — Alan (Stewart) 1903–88, South African novelist.
- pavan — a stately dance dating from the 16th century.
- pavin — pavane.
- payne — John Howard, 1791–1852, U.S. actor and dramatist.
- peano — Giuseppe Peano
- peans — any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
- pecan — a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- pedon — a three-dimensional sample of a soil just large enough to show the characteristics of all its horizons.
- peene — a river in NE Germany, flowing E to the Baltic Sea. About 97 miles (155 km) long.
- pekan — the fisher, Martes pennanti.
- pekin — a city in central Illinois.
- pelon — (in Latin America) hairless
- penal — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pence — a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination): sixpence; The fare was 15 pence.
- penda — died 655 ad, king of Mercia (?634–55)
- pends — to remain undecided or unsettled.
- pendu — culturally backward
- pene- — almost
- penes — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pengo — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- penis — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- penki — Benxi.
- penna — a contour feather, as distinguished from a down feather, plume, etc.
- penne — a type of tubular pasta having diagonally cut ends.
- penni — an aluminum coin of Finland until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a markka.
- penny — a bronze coin, the 100th part of the dollars of various nations, as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States; one cent.
- pents — penthouse (def 4).
- penza — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- peony — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- pepin — ("Pepin the Short") died a.d. 768, king of the Franks 751–768 (father of Charlemagne).
- peron — Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- phano — fanon.
- phen- — of or derived from benzene
- phene — any characteristic of an individual organism that is genetically determined.
- pheon — a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
- phon- — phono-
- phone — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phono — phonograph.
- phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- piano — a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- piend — arris.
- piing — printing types mixed together indiscriminately.
- pilon — something extra; lagniappe.
- piman — any of various groupings of Uto-Aztecan languages, of varying degrees of inclusiveness, comprising Pima and its closest relatives.
- pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- pined — to yearn deeply; suffer with longing; long painfully (often followed by for): to pine for one's home and family.
- pinel — Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- pines — Archaic. painful longing.
- piney — abounding in or covered with pine trees: piny hillsides.
- pingo — a hill of soil-covered ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.