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8-letter words containing p, a, i, n

  • pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
  • pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
  • pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
  • pectinal — of or resembling a comb
  • 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.
  • pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
  • pemmican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
  • penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
  • penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
  • penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.
  • perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
  • perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
  • persians — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
  • pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
  • peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
  • petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
  • pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
  • phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
  • phenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
  • photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
  • phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
  • phthalin — any of a group of compounds obtained by the reduction of the phthaleins.
  • piacenza — a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
  • pianette — a small upright piano.
  • piazzian — (in poems by Keats) of or referring to a piazza
  • picarian — a bird belonging to the picariae division of birds, which is extensive and includes woodpeckers, toucans and kingfishers among many more
  • picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
  • picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • piccanin — a Black African child
  • pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
  • pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
  • pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
  • pin mark — the circular indentation on the upper part of a type body, made by the pin that ejects the type from the caster.
  • pin rail — Theater. a rail on a fly gallery, wall, etc., holding two rows of pins or cleats for securing lines attached to scenery.
  • pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
  • pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
  • pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
  • pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
  • pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
  • pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
  • pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
  • pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
  • pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
  • pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
  • pink tea — a formal tea or reception.
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