5-letter words containing n, p
- powin — a peacock depicted on a heraldic shield
- ppnet — peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour
- prana — Yoga, Jainism. the vital principle.
- prang — to collide with; bump into.
- prank — a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
- prawn — any of various shrimplike decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food.
- preen — (of animals, especially birds) to trim or dress (feathers, fur, etc.) with the beak or tongue: The peacock preened itself on the lawn.
- preon — a hypothetical component of a quark
- prink — to deck or dress for show.
- print — to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.
- prion — a tiny proteinaceous particle, likened to viruses and viroids, but having no genetic component, thought to be an infectious agent in bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and similar encephalopathies.
- proin — a prune, or dried plum
- pron. — pronominal
- prone — having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger.
- prong — one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- pronk — a display leap performed by springbok and other antelope
- prune — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- prunt — a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- psion — (company) The UK company that produced the Psion Organiser. They also wrote software for the Sinclair QL.
- púcán — traditional Connemara open sailing boat
- pugin — Augustus Charles, 1762–1832, French architectural draftsman and archaeologist in England.
- punan — a member of a food-gathering people living in the forests of interior Borneo.
- punce — a kick
- punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
- punic — of or relating to the ancient Carthaginians.
- punji — (in SE Asia) a sharpened bamboo stake, sometimes tipped with poison, hidden at the bottom of a camouflaged hole that forms a trap
- punka — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- punky — Slang. of or like punks or hoodlums.
- punny — having, involving, or characteristic of a pun.
- punto — a hit or sword thrust
- punty — an iron rod used in glassmaking for handling the hot glass.
- pupin — Michael Idvorsky [id-vawr-skee] /ɪdˈvɔr ski/ (Show IPA), 1858–1935, U.S. inventor, physicist, and author, born in Hungary.
- pusan — a seaport in SE South Korea.
- putin — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- puton — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- pwned — Slang. to totally defeat or dominate, especially in a video or computer game: You just got pwned! I pwned those guys in the end.
- pydna — a town in ancient Macedonia, W of the Gulf of Salonika: decisive Roman victory over the Macedonians 186 b.c.
- pylon — a marking post or tower for guiding aviators, frequently used in races.
- pyran — either of two compounds having the formula C 5 H 6 O, containing one oxygen and five carbon atoms arranged in a six-membered ring.
- repin — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- ripen — fruit, etc.: mature
- ripon — a city in N England, in North Yorkshire: cathedral (12th–16th centuries). Pop: 16 468 (2001)
- rnwmp — Royal Northwest Mounted Police: a former name for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- runup — the testing of an airplane engine by accelerating the motor.
- sneap — to scold or rebuke
- snipe — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- snips — to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
- snipy — resembling or like a snipe bird
- snoep — mean or tight-fisted
- snoop — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.