8-letter words containing pin
- pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- pin-eyed — (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma in the mouth of the corolla, on the end of a long style with the stamens lower in the tube
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pin-spot — to illuminate with a pin spot.
- pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pincheck — a very small check woven into fabric, much used in the manufacture of men's and women's suits.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinchgut — someone who does not give other people enough food
- pinckney — Charles, 1757–1824, American Revolutionary leader and politician: senator 1798–1801.
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- pindling — puny; sickly; frail; weak.
- pindolol — a synthetic beta blocker, C 1 4 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used in the management of hypertension.
- pine end — the gable or gable end of a building
- 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.
- pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pinewood — the wood of a pine.
- pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
- pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
- pinioned — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
- pink gin — a cocktail of gin and bitters usually made and served without ice.
- pink tea — a formal tea or reception.
- pink-eye — a contagious, epidemic form of acute conjunctivitis occurring in humans and certain animals: so called from the color of the inflamed eye.
- pinkened — to grow or turn pink.
- pinkiang — Older Spelling. former name of Harbin.
- pinkroot — the root of any of various plants belonging to the genus Spigelia, of the logania family, especially that of S. marilandica of the U.S., that is used as a vermifuge.
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- pinnacle — a lofty peak.
- pinnati- — pinnate or pinnately
- pinniped — belonging to the Pinnipedia, a suborder of carnivores with limbs adapted to an aquatic life, including the seals and walruses.
- pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
- pinpoint — the point of a pin.
- pinprick — any minute puncture made by a pin or the like.
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- pinswell — a small boil
- pintable — a pinball machine
- pinwheel — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- pipiness — a quality or extent of being pipy
- pipingly — in a shrill manner
- plopping — to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water: A frog plopped into the pond.
- polypine — relating to polyps
- popinjay — a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- prepping — preparatory school.