8-letter words containing p, i, n, o
- kinepock — (obsolete) cowpox.
- kingpost — vertical post connecting the apex of a triangular roof truss to the tie beam
- kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
- lampions — Plural form of lampion.
- leporine — of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- lin piao — Lin Biao.
- linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
- lionship — The state of being a lion, or famous person in society.
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- long pig — (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- midpoint — a point at or near the middle of, or equidistant from, both ends, as of a line: the midpoint of a boundary.
- millpond — a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
- mind-pop — a word, phrase, image, or sound that comes into the mind suddenly and involuntarily and is usually related to a recent experience.
- mispoint — (transitive) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
- moonship — a lunar module
- mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- 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.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- 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.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- 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.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- nonpoint — of or relating to a source of pollution that is not readily and specifically identifiable, as water runoff.
- nonprint — of, relating to, or consisting of other than printed matter: Slide shows, slide-tape presentations, and video are nonprint media.
- nopalito — an edible branch (or cladode) of various cacti of the genus Opuntia (prickly pear), commonly used as a vegetable
- nymphoid — Of or pertaining to a nymph.
- oedipean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Oedipus or the Oedipus complex.
- offprint — Also called separate. a reprint of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- 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.
- ophidian — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
- opinions — Plural form of opinion.