8-letter words containing u, n, p
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
- paludine — marshy
- pandanus — any plant of the genus Pandanus, having sword-shaped leaves arranged in a spiral, comprising the screw pines.
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- panhuman — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- panufnik — Sir Andrzej (ændreɪ). 1914–91, British composer and conductor, born in Poland. His works include nine symphonies, the cantata Winter Solstice (1972), Polish folk-song settings, and ballet music
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- 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
- patinous — patinated.
- patulent — patulous
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- 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
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- picumnus — one of two ancient Roman fertility gods.
- 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 tuck — a narrow ornamental fold used esp on shirt fronts and dress bodices
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pinchgut — someone who does not give other people enough food
- 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
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plainful — sad and mournful