8-letter words containing p, o, l, n
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- playdown — a play-off.
- plectron — plectrum.
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- pleuston — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- 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.
- plus-one — a person who accompanies an invited person to a social function
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- 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.
- poll end — the hub holding the sail arms of a windmill.
- 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.
- poltroon — a wretched coward; craven.
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polyenic — relating to a polyene
- polygene — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- polygyny — the practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time.
- polyonym — a word with the same meaning as another word; synonym
- polyphon — a large clockwork or hand-operated music box
- polypine — relating to polyps
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polytene — denoting a type of giant-size chromosome consisting of many replicated genes in parallel, found esp in Drosophila larvae
- polyteny — the condition of being polytene
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- polyzoan — bryozoan
- polyzoon — an individual zooid within a polyzoan
- poncelet — Jean Victor [zhahn veek-tawr] /ʒɑ̃ vikˈtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1788–1867, French mathematician.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- ponselle — Rosa (Melba) 1897–1981, U.S. soprano.
- 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.
- 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
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- posingly — in a posing manner