8-letter words containing p, l, a, n, t
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pentacle — pentagram.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- phthalin — any of a group of compounds obtained by the reduction of the phthaleins.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- pintable — a pinball machine
- placenta — Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
- plainant — a plaintiff
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plan out — organize in detail
- planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- planet x — a planet (beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto) whose existence has been hypothesized but not confirmed.
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- plantage — plants
- plantain — any plant of the genus Plantago, especially P. major, a weed with large, spreading leaves close to the ground and long, slender spikes of small flowers.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plantlet — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platanna — an aquatic South African frog
- platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
- plateman — a person who makes and sells plate armour
- platinic — of or containing platinum, especially in the tetravalent state.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- postanal — of, pertaining to, involving, or near the anus.
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- preplant — occurring before planting
- pronotal — relating to an insect's pronotum
- punctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- rataplan — a sound of or as of the beating of a drum.
- salt pan — an undrained natural depression, as a crater or tectonic basin, in which the evaporation of water leaves a deposit of salt.