8-letter words containing p, a, n, d
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- pagandom — the part of the world inhabited by pagans.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- paludine — marshy
- pan head — a tripod head permitting vertical or horizontal rotation of a camera to any position.
- pandanus — any plant of the genus Pandanus, having sword-shaped leaves arranged in a spiral, comprising the screw pines.
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- pandavas — (in the Mahabharata) the family of Arjuna, at war with their cousins, the Kauravas.
- pandemia — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pandered — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- panderer — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- panelled — A panelled room has decorative wooden panels covering its walls.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- paranoid — of, like, or suffering from paranoia.
- pardoner — a person who pardons.
- parented — a father or a mother.
- parkland — a grassland region with isolated or grouped trees, usually in temperate regions.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- passband — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- pat-down — an act or instance of passing the hands over the body of a clothed person to detect concealed weapons, drugs, etc.; frisking.
- patented — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- pattened — any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- 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.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
- plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
- platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
- playdown — a play-off.
- playland — an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight