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8-letter words containing p, u, n, e

  • nenuphar — A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
  • neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
  • nonuplet — One of a group of nine, especially such a multiple birth.
  • nut pine — piñon (def 1).
  • open cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • open out — lead to wider area
  • open-cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
  • oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
  • opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
  • outpreen — to exceed in preening
  • outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
  • outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
  • painture — the art or act of painting
  • palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
  • paludine — marshy
  • parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
  • patulent — patulous
  • paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
  • peduncle — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
  • pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
  • pendulum — a body so suspended from a fixed point as to move to and fro by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
  • pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
  • penuchle — pinochle.
  • penuckle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
  • penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
  • penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.
  • per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
  • perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
  • perineum — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
  • peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
  • perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
  • peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
  • petanque — a form of lawn bowling originating in France, usually played on rough ground using steel balls.
  • petulant — sulky or irritable
  • petuntse — a fusible feldspathic mineral used in hard-paste porcelain; china stone
  • phone up — call on the telephone
  • picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • pine nut — Also, pignoli. the seed of any of several pine trees, as the piñon, eaten roasted or salted or used in making candy, pastry, etc., after removing the hard seed coat.
  • pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
  • plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
  • 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.
  • plus-one — a person who accompanies an invited person to a social function
  • poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
  • poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.
  • prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
  • prelunch — of or relating to the period before lunch
  • prepunch — to pierce with holes in advance
  • pressrun — the running of a printing press for a specific job: The pressrun will take about an hour.
  • preunion — a meeting in advance of a permanent union
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