8-letter words containing p, i, n, e
- loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
- lupuline — of or relating to lupulin
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- mindwipe — (transitive, science fiction) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
- misspend — to spend wrongly or unwisely; squander; waste.
- misspent — spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
- mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- nepionic — of or relating to the juvenile period in the life cycle of an organism
- nepotism — 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.
- nepotist — 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.
- netpipes — (networking) A package by Robert Forsman <[email protected]> to manipulate BSD Unix TCP/IP stream sockets. The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. It can also simplify client-server code by allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter/service.
- netsplit — netburp
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- ninepins — (used with a singular verb) tenpins played without the head pin.
- nut pine — piñon (def 1).
- oedipean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Oedipus or the Oedipus complex.
- open die — a die of flat, concave, or hollow V shape that only minimally restricts lateral flow.
- open pit — An open pit is a mine where the coal, metal, or minerals are near the surface and underground passages are not needed.
- open-air — existing in, taking place in, or characteristic of the open air; outdoor: The orchestra gave three open-air concerts last summer.
- open-pit — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
- openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
- openings — Plural form of opening.
- openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- opsonize — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- optionee — a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
- overspin — topspin.
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- paganize — to make pagan.
- 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.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- paludine — marshy
- pandemia — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.