8-letter words containing n, s, p
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- presence — the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
- presents — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- press on — continue, persevere
- pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
- pression — an act of pressing
- pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- pressrun — the running of a printing press for a specific job: The pressrun will take about an hour.
- pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
- preussen — German name of Prussia.
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- princeps — first edition.
- princess — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristina — the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement.
- pristine — having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- prodnose — an inquisitive person
- proggins — a university proctor
- prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
- pronouns — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- propense — having a tendency toward; prone; inclined.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- prosopon — the manifestation of any of the persons of the Trinity
- prostoon — (in classical architecture) a portico.
- proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protense — extension in time
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- prussian — of or relating to Prussia or its inhabitants.
- psilocin — a psilocybin metabolite with strong hallucinogenic potency, produced after ingestion of the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psionics — the study of the practical use of psychic powers
- psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
- psyching — psych1 .
- pug nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pug-nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- puissant — powerful; mighty; potent.
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- puniness — puny quality or condition
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- puntsman — a man in charge of a river punt
- pureness — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pursuant — proceeding after; following (usually followed by to): Pursuant to his studies he took a job in an office.
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- pycnosis — the reduction in size and increase in staining of a cell or its nucleus, usually a feature of cell degeneration
- pyknosis — a process of thickening, esp. in the shrinking nucleus of a degenerating cell
- pyonings — the work of military sappers, such as the digging of trenches