8-letter words containing p, n, i
- phone in — If you phone in to a radio or television show, you telephone the show in order to give your opinion on a matter that the show has raised.
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
- photonic — of or relating to processes involving photons.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- phthalin — any of a group of compounds obtained by the reduction of the phthaleins.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- pi meson — pion.
- piacenza — a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
- pianette — a small upright piano.
- piazzian — (in poems by Keats) of or referring to a piazza
- picarian — a bird belonging to the picariae division of birds, which is extensive and includes woodpeckers, toucans and kingfishers among many more
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piccanin — a Black African child
- piccinni — Niccolò [neek-kaw-law] /ˌnik kɔˈlɔ/ (Show IPA), or Nicola [nee-kaw-lah] /niˈkɔ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1728–1800, Italian composer.
- pickings — the act of a person or thing that picks.
- pickling — a cucumber that has been preserved in brine, vinegar, or the like.
- picnicky — of or relating to picnic
- 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.
- picumnus — one of two ancient Roman fertility gods.
- piddling — amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money.
- piecener — (formerly, in cotton or woollen mills) someone (often a child) whose job was to join broken threads together
- piedmont — a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
- piedness — the condition or quality of being pied, for example in an animal
- piemonte — Italian name of Piedmont.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- piffling — of little worth; trifling; piddling: piffling efforts.
- pig fern — giant bracken
- pig iron — iron tapped from a blast furnace and cast into pigs in preparation for conversion into steel, cast iron, or wrought iron.
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pignolis — pine nut (def 1).
- pilipino — a language essentially the same as Tagalog that has been adopted as the official national language of the Philippines.
- piloting — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- piloxing — a system of exercise combining elements of Pilates and boxing
- pilsener — a light Bohemian lager beer, traditionally served in a tall, conical, footed glass (Pilsener glass)
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- pimentón — smoked chilli powder
- pimiento — the ripe, red, mild-flavored fruit of the sweet or bell pepper, Capsicum annuum, used as a vegetable, relish, to stuff olives, etc.
- pin bone — a hip bone on a cow, horse or similar animal, that sticks out