7-letter words containing p, e, n
- line-up — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- lineups — Plural form of lineup.
- lupines — Plural form of lupine.
- maniple — (in ancient Rome) a subdivision of a legion, consisting of 60 or 120 men.
- manrope — a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- meeping — Present participle of meep.
- mendips — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
- menippe — a daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metioche, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.
- metopon — An opiate analogue, a methylated derivative of hydromorphone used as an analgesic.
- n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
- nagapie — any nocturnal primate of the family Galagidae, native to continental Africa
- napless — the short fuzzy ends of fibers on the surface of cloth, drawn up in napping.
- nappers — Plural form of napper.
- nappier — Comparative form of nappy.
- nappies — Plural form of nappy.
- naptime — a time set aside for taking a nap; a period during which one naps.
- neotype — a specimen selected to replace a holotype that has been lost or destroyed.
- nephele — a woman formed from a cloud by Zeus as a counterfeit of Hera, in order to deceive the lustful Ixion: mother by Ixion of the centaurs.
- nephews — Plural form of nephew.
- nephric — renal.
- nephro- — kidney or kidneys
- nephron — the filtering and excretory unit of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and tubules.
- nephros — (anatomy) A kidney-like organ.
- nepotic — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- neptune — the ancient Roman god of the sea, identified with the Greek god Poseidon.
- netburp — (networking, chat) (Or "netsplit") When netlag gets really bad, and delays between IRC servers exceed a certain threshhold, the network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better. An instance of this is called a "netburp" (or, sometimes, netsplit).
- netplay — (video games) Multiplayer gameplay over a network.
- neupest — German name of Ujpest.
- newport — a seaport in Gwent, in SE Wales, near the Severn estuary.
- ninepin — The wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle.
- nippers — a person or thing that nips.
- nippled — Having a nipple or nipples.
- nipples — Plural form of nipple.
- nonpeak — off-peak.
- nonpoet — One who is not a poet.
- nonripe — Not ripe.
- nonuple — having nine beats to the measure: a nonuple rhythm.
- nopales — (plurale tantum) The leaves of a prickly pear cactus, as used in Mexican cooking.
- noplace — nowhere.
- notepad — a pad of blank pages for writing notes.
- np time — nondeterministic polynomial time
- nymphae — Anatomy. one of the inner labia of the vulva.
- nymphet — a young nymph.
- on spec — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- on-peak — peak1 (def 17).
- opaline — of or like opal; opalescent.
- open to — glad or willing to receive, discuss, etc.
- open up — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- openbsd — (operating system) A version of BSD Unix with an emphasis on security. A lot of security work that is ported to other free operating systems originates with OpenBSD and a lot of code review is done here. Sub-projects of OpenBSD include implementations of SSH, ntpd, and CVS, to be called OpenCVS.
- opendoc — (operating system) A compound document architecture from CIL based on CORBA. It aims to enable embedding of features from different application programs into a single working document.