8-letter words containing p, a, t, i
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- meat pie — pastry containing meat
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- misadapt — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- mispaint — to paint badly or wrongly
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- misstamp — to stamp badly
- mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- naphtali — the sixth son of Jacob and Bilhah. Gen. 30:7,8.
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nit-lamp — jacklight.
- nopalito — an edible branch (or cladode) of various cacti of the genus Opuntia (prickly pear), commonly used as a vegetable
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- occipita — Plural form of occiput.
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- oltipraz — 4-methyl-5-(2-pyrazinyl)-3-dithiolethione, a schistosomicide drug also used in tumour prevention.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- oppilant — blocking, hindering, or obstructing
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- optation — (obsolete) The act of optating; a wish.
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- optimate — a Roman aristocrat
- optional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- pacation — the act of making peace
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- pad thai — a Thai dish of stir-fried rice noodles, fish sauce and other seasonings, and usually tofu, shrimp, bean sprouts, and peanuts.
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- paginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- paignton — a town and resort in SW England, in Devon: administratively part of Torbay since 1968
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- painting — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- paintpot — a container for holding paint while it is being applied
- painture — the art or act of painting
- pakistan — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
- palatial — of, relating to, or resembling a palace: a palatial home.
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- palliate — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- palmitin — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 1 H 9 8 O 6 , prepared from glycerol and palmitic acid: used in the manufacture of soap.