8-letter words containing p, a, n, o
- pfortran — Parallel Fortran
- phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- 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.
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- 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.
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
- pivotman — a pivot (def 7b).
- plan out — organize in detail
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- planosol — a type of intrazonal soil of humid or subhumid uplands having a strongly leached upper layer overlying a clay hardpan
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- playdown — a play-off.
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- pointman — soldier who walks at the front of an infantry patrol in combat
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- polyzoan — bryozoan
- 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.
- pompeian — of or relating to Pompeii, or its culture.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
- pop band — a band, consisting of guitars, drums and sometimes other instruments, which plays pop music
- popinjay — a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- pornomag — pornographic magazine
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- postanal — of, pertaining to, involving, or near the anus.
- postnati — those born after a particular event, esp in Scotland after the union with England or in the US after the Declaration of Independence
- potation — the act of drinking.
- potentia — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.