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8-letter words that end in an

  • off plan — (of a new building) considered with reference to its plans, before it has been built
  • okanagan — a river in North America that flows south from Okanagan Lake in Canada into the Columbia River in NE Washington, US Length: about 483 km (300 miles)
  • okinagan — a member of a North American Indian people living in the Okanagan River valley in British Columbia and Washington
  • olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
  • omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
  • ontarian — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
  • oolachan — eulachon.
  • ophidian — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes.
  • optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
  • orcadian — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
  • ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
  • orra man — an odd-jobman
  • ossetian — Also, Ossetic. of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossetia, a region in Caucasia, or the Ossets, the people living there.
  • ottonian — of or relating to the German dynasty (Otto I, II, III) that ruled as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire from 962 to 1002.
  • overplan — to plan excessively
  • oversman — an overseer
  • pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
  • pakistan — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
  • panacean — a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.
  • panhuman — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
  • papinian — (Aemilius Papinianus) died a.d. 212, Roman jurist and writer.
  • parazoan — any member of a group of invertebrates comprising the phylum Porifera, the sponges.
  • parisian — a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
  • parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • parthian — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
  • partisan — a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
  • partizan — partisan2 .
  • pattypan — white bush (scallop)
  • pea bean — a variety of kidney bean having a small, white seed, used dried for food.
  • pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
  • pemmican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
  • pentosan — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
  • 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.
  • penwoman — a female writer
  • perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
  • 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.
  • pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
  • peterman — a safecracker.
  • pfortran — Parallel Fortran
  • phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
  • piazzian — (in poems by Keats) of or referring to a piazza
  • picarian — a bird belonging to the picariae division of birds, which is extensive and includes woodpeckers, toucans and kingfishers among many more
  • pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
  • pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
  • pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
  • pivotman — a pivot (def 7b).
  • placeman — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
  • plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
  • plateman — a person who makes and sells plate armour
  • plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
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