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8-letter words containing pen

  • 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-end — of, relating to, or like an open-end investment company.
  • open-jaw — relating to a ticket that allows a traveller to arrive in one place and depart from another
  • open-pit — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
  • open-top — An open-top bus has no roof, so that the people sitting on the top level can see or be seen more easily. An open-top car has no roof or has a roof that can be removed.
  • open-web — having a web of zigzag or crisscross lacing.
  • openable — capable of being opened.
  • openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openhole — Openhole describes an uncased (=having no casing or liner) part of a well.
  • openings — Plural form of opening.
  • openness — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
  • openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
  • openstep — (operating system)   An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
  • openwork — any kind of work, especially ornamental, as of embroidery, lace, metal, stone, or wood, having a latticelike nature or showing openings through its substance.
  • osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
  • outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
  • outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
  • pen name — a pseudonym used by an author; nom de plume.
  • penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
  • penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
  • penchant — a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
  • pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
  • pendency — the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
  • pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
  • 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.
  • penelope — Classical Mythology. the wife of Odysseus, who remained faithful to him during his long absence at Troy.
  • penfield — Wilder. 1891–1976, Canadian scientist, neurosurgeon, and writer born in the US; he developed a surgical treatment for epilepsy
  • penitent — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
  • penknife — a small pocketknife, formerly one used for making and sharpening quill pens.
  • penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
  • penneech — a card game in which the seven of diamonds is the highest card and the trump suit changes with each trick
  • pennines — a member of the chlorite group, rhombohedral in habit.
  • pennoned — equipped with a pennon
  • pennyboy — an employee whose duties include menial tasks, such as running errands
  • pennyfee — a small payment, whether literally of the value of a penny or not
  • penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • penoncel — pencel.
  • penpoint — the point or writing end of a pen, especially a small, tapering, metallic device having a split tip for drawing up ink and for writing; nib.
  • pensione — an Italian boarding house or small hotel
  • penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
  • pentacle — pentagram.
  • pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
  • pentagon — a polygon having five angles and five sides.
  • pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
  • pentarch — a government by five persons.
  • 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
  • pentomic — pertaining to or characterizing the organization of an army division into five groups, each with supporting units, geared to maneuver in keeping with the requirements of atomic warfare.
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