8-letter words containing p, n, i
- linkspan — a hinged bridge on a quay, used to move vehicles on or off a vessel
- linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
- lionship — The state of being a lion, or famous person in society.
- lip-sync — the technical process by which this is done.
- lippmann — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1845–1921, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1908.
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- liven up — make more lively
- long pig — (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
- lupuline — of or relating to lupulin
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- lynchpin — a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- mappings — Plural form of mapping.
- marzipan — a confection made of almonds reduced to a paste with sugar and often molded into various forms, usually diminutive fruits and vegetables.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- midpoint — a point at or near the middle of, or equidistant from, both ends, as of a line: the midpoint of a boundary.
- millpond — a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
- mind map — a diagrammatic method of representing ideas, with related concepts arranged around a core concept
- mind-pop — a word, phrase, image, or sound that comes into the mind suddenly and involuntarily and is usually related to a recent experience.
- mindmaps — Plural form of mindmap.
- mindwipe — (transitive, science fiction) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
- minicamp — A session run by a professional sports team to train particular players, or to test potential new players, before the main preseason training.
- minipark — pocket park.
- minipill — an oral birth control pill that contains only a progestin and is to be taken daily without monthly cessation.
- mispaint — to paint badly or wrongly
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- mispoint — (transitive) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
- misprint — a mistake in printing, as an instance of printing a letter or word other than that intended.
- misspend — to spend wrongly or unwisely; squander; waste.
- misspent — spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
- moonship — a lunar module
- mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- naphtali — the sixth son of Jacob and Bilhah. Gen. 30:7,8.
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- nauplial — of or relating to nauplius larva
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- nepionic — of or relating to the juvenile period in the life cycle of an organism