8-letter words containing p, n, e
- deprenyl — a drug used to treat senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression, by acting as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- depurant — purifying
- deputing — Present participle of depute.
- desponds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despond.
- dew pond — a shallow pond, usually man-made, that is kept supplied with water by dew and condensation
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diphenyl — biphenyl.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dispence — Obsolete form of dispense.
- dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- dispunge — to expunge
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropzone — The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
- dungheap — pile of dung
- dyspneal — Alt form dyspnoeal.
- dyspneic — difficult or labored breathing.
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- eaten up — food: finished
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elaphine — relating to or resembling a red deer
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- empanada — A Spanish or Latin American pastry turnover filled with a variety of savory ingredients and baked or fried.
- empanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empanel.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- empoison — (obsolete) poison.
- emptying — Present participle of to empty.
- empyrean — Belonging to or deriving from heaven.
- en plein — (of a gambling bet) placed entirely on a single number, etc
- en prise — (of a chess piece) exposed to capture
- encamped — Simple past tense and past participle of encamp.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- encipher — Convert (a message or piece of text) into a coded form ; encrypt.
- encrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encrypt.
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- endpaper — A blank or decorated leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.