8-letter words containing p, l, e, n
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
- peduncle — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- peelings — Peelings are pieces of skin removed from vegetables and fruit.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pelerine — a woman's cape of fur or cloth, usually waist-length in back with long descending ends in front.
- pemoline — a synthetic, weak, central nervous system stimulant, C 9 H 8 N 2 O 2 , with sympathomimetic activity, used as an adjunct in the management of hyperkinetic behavior disorders.
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pendulum — a body so suspended from a fixed point as to move to and fro by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- penelope — Classical Mythology. the wife of Odysseus, who remained faithful to him during his long absence at Troy.
- penfield — Wilder. 1891–1976, Canadian scientist, neurosurgeon, and writer born in the US; he developed a surgical treatment for epilepsy
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- penoncel — pencel.
- pentacle — pentagram.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- penuchle — pinochle.
- penuckle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- peopling — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- phalange — a phalanx.
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- picoline — any of three isomeric methyl derivatives of pyridine having the formula C 6 H 7 N, obtained from coal tar as a colorless oily liquid with a strong odor.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- pilsener — a light Bohemian lager beer, traditionally served in a tall, conical, footed glass (Pilsener glass)
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pinnacle — a lofty peak.
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pinswell — a small boil
- pintable — a pinball machine
- pinwheel — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- pipeline — a long tubular conduit or series of pipes, often underground, with pumps and valves for flow control, used to transport crude oil, natural gas, water, etc., especially over great distances.