8-letter words containing a, p, l, e, n
- pawnable — able to be pawned
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- 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.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pentacle — pentagram.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- phalange — a phalanx.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- pin seal — leather made of the skin of young seals.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pinnacle — a lofty peak.
- pintable — a pinball machine
- placeman — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
- placemen — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
- placenta — Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
- planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- planet x — a planet (beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto) whose existence has been hypothesized but not confirmed.
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- planless — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- plantage — plants
- plantlet — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
- plateman — a person who makes and sells plate armour
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- ponderal — relating to weight