8-letter words containing u, l, n
- 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.
- penuchle — pinochle.
- penuckle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plainful — sad and mournful
- plan out — organize in detail
- plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- 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.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- prelunch — of or relating to the period before lunch
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- prunella — a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.
- prunelle — a sweet, brown, French liqueur distilled from plums.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- puddling — a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
- pulicene — flea-ridden
- pulingly — in a complaining manner
- pulldown — a mechanism that intermittently advances the film through the film gate of a camera or projector.
- pulmonic — pulmonary.
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- punaluan — relating to punalua
- punctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- punctule — a very small opening
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- purulent — full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore.
- puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- puzzolan — pozzolana.