8-letter words containing p, n, i
- plingnet — UUCPNET. See also pling.
- plinking — to shoot, as with a rifle, at targets selected at whim: to plink at coins tossed in the air.
- pliocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 10 to 2 million years ago, and characterized by increased size and numbers of mammals, by the growth of mountains, and by global climatic cooling.
- pliotron — any hot-cathode vacuum tube having an anode and one or more grids.
- plodding — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plonking — foolish, clumsy, or inept
- plopping — to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water: A frog plopped into the pond.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- plotline — The plotline of a book, film, or play is its plot and the way in which it develops.
- plotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- plugging — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plunging — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- plyingly — in a plying manner
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- point up — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- pointers — a person or thing that points.
- pointing — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- pointman — soldier who walks at the front of an infantry patrol in combat
- poisoner — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- poitrine — a woman's bosom
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- polonism — a Polish characteristic or sense of identity
- polonium — a radioactive element discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898; Symbol: Po; atomic number: 84; atomic weight: about 210.
- polonius — the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- polonize — to make Polish; cause or force to take on ways, customs, viewpoints, etc., that are characteristically Polish.
- polyenic — relating to a polyene
- polypine — relating to polyps
- pompeian — of or relating to Pompeii, or its culture.
- pontifex — a member of the Pontifical College, which was presided over by a chief priest (Pontifex Maximus)
- pontific — pontifical.
- pontoise — a department in N France. 482 sq. mi. (1248 sq. km). Capital: Pontoise.
- ponyskin — the leather from a pony hide
- 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.
- pop wine — an inexpensive wine having a low alcohol content and artificial fruit flavoring.
- popeline — a fabric, resembling broadcloth, rep, or poplin and made with silk or rayon warp and wool filling, used in the manufacture of dress goods.
- popeling — a deputy or supporter of the Pope
- popinjay — a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- poseidon — the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes, identified by the Romans with Neptune.