8-letter words containing p, a, n, t
- captaine — Obsolete spelling of captain.
- captains — Plural form of captain.
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- clap-net — a net, used esp by entomologists, that can be closed instantly by pulling a string
- conepati — hog-nosed skunk (def 2).
- conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copatron — a fellow patron
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- data pen — a device for reading or scanning magnetically coded data on labels, packets, etc
- depurant — purifying
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- displant — to dislodge.
- dustpans — Plural form of dustpan.
- eaten up — food: finished
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- epinasty — (botany) the downward curvature of leaves etc due to differential growth rates.
- expirant — a person who expires
- explants — Plural form of explant.
- fat pine — lightwood.
- flippant — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- frappant — striking; vivid
- ganapati — (Hinduism) Lord of the demigods attending on Shiva. An epithet of Ganesha.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- hanepoot — a variety of muscat grape used as a dessert fruit and in making wine
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- heptagon — a polygon having seven angles and seven sides.
- impanate — (of the body of Christ) contained in the bread of the Eucharist
- implants — Plural form of implant.
- in spate — When a river is in spate it contains a lot more water than usual and is flowing very fast.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- jogpants — a pair of trousers worn for jogging
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- man-trap — an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
- mantraps — Plural form of mantrap.
- map onto — to fit in with or correspond to
- meneptah — Merneptah.
- mispaint — to paint badly or wrongly
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly