8-letter words starting with pen
- 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.
- pentosan — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- pentroof — a roof sloping in only one direction
- 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.
- penwiper — a piece of equipment for cleaning the ink from a pen
- penwoman — a female writer
- penzance — a seaport in SW Cornwall, in the SW extremity of England: resort.
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