8-letter words containing o, p, e, n, t
- monotype — the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
- nectopod — (in certain mollusks) an appendage modified for swimming.
- neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
- nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- nepotist — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- netphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
- nonempty — (of a set, group, collection, etc.) containing at least one element.
- nonuplet — One of a group of nine, especially such a multiple birth.
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- one-spot — the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
- one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
- open cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
- open out — lead to wider area
- open pit — An open pit is a mine where the coal, metal, or minerals are near the surface and underground passages are not needed.
- open set — a set which is not a closed set
- open-cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
- open-pit — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
- open-top — An open-top bus has no roof, so that the people sitting on the top level can see or be seen more easily. An open-top car has no roof or has a roof that can be removed.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- openstep — (operating system) An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- optionee — a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- outpreen — to exceed in preening
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- paste-on — that can be pasted or stuck on: canning jars with paste-on labels.
- patentor — a person or official agency that grants patents.
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronne — a woman who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
- penpoint — the point or writing end of a pen, especially a small, tapering, metallic device having a split tip for drawing up ink and for writing; nib.
- penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
- pentagon — a polygon having five angles and five sides.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- pentomic — pertaining to or characterizing the organization of an army division into five groups, each with supporting units, geared to maneuver in keeping with the requirements of atomic warfare.
- pentosan — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- pentroof — a roof sloping in only one direction
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- perronet — Jean Rodolphe [zhahn raw-dawlf] /ʒɑ̃ rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1708–94, French engineer.
- petdingo — (tool) An Estelle to C++ translator.
- peterson — Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- petition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.