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8-letter words containing p, n, i

  • 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.
  • pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • 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.
  • piperine — a white, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 , obtained from pepper and other piperaceous plants and also prepared synthetically: used as an insecticide.
  • pipiness — a quality or extent of being pipy
  • pipingly — in a shrill manner
  • piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
  • piranesi — Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
  • pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
  • pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
  • pit pony — formerly, a pony used in coal mines to pull loads of coal
  • pit-sawn — (of timber, esp formerly) sawn into planks by hand in a saw-pit
  • pitcairn — British island in Polynesia, in the South Pacific: 1.8 sq mi (4.6 sq km); pop. 54
  • pitch in — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
  • pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
  • pitching — any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
  • pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
  • pitikins — a mild oath (esp in the phrase ods pitikins)
  • pittance — a small amount or share.
  • pivot on — If one thing pivots on another, it depends on it.
  • pivoting — a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
  • pivotman — a pivot (def 7b).
  • placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
  • plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
  • plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
  • plainant — a plaintiff
  • plainful — sad and mournful
  • plaining — to complain.
  • plainish — rather ordinary-looking
  • plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
  • planaria — freshwater or saltwater flatworms of the family Planariidae, that are widely used in laboratory work because of their ability to regenerate parts of the body easily
  • planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
  • planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • 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.
  • planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
  • plashing — a gentle splash.
  • 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.
  • pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
  • pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
  • plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • pledging — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • plentier — a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
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