8-letter words containing p, o, n, t, a
- optation — (obsolete) The act of optating; a wish.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- optional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- pacation — the act of making peace
- paignton — a town and resort in SW England, in Devon: administratively part of Torbay since 1968
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- paintpot — a container for holding paint while it is being applied
- panoptic — permitting the viewing of all parts or elements: a panoptic stain used in microscopy; a panoptic aerial photograph of an enemy missile base.
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- pantonal — marked by or using pantonality.
- paste-on — that can be pasted or stuck on: canning jars with paste-on labels.
- pat-down — an act or instance of passing the hands over the body of a clothed person to detect concealed weapons, drugs, etc.; frisking.
- patentor — a person or official agency that grants patents.
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- patinous — patinated.
- patronal — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronne — a woman who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- pentagon — a polygon having five angles and five sides.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- pentosan — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- pfortran — Parallel Fortran
- phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
- 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.
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
- pivotman — a pivot (def 7b).
- plan out — organize in detail
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- pointman — soldier who walks at the front of an infantry patrol in combat
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- 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.
- poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- 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
- postanal — of, pertaining to, involving, or near the anus.