8-letter words starting with p
- patentee — a person, group, or company that has been granted a patent.
- patently — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patentor — a person or official agency that grants patents.
- paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- path lab — pathology laboratory
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pathname — the sequence of symbols and names indicating the location of a particular file in a hierarchical file system.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- pathosis — a diseased condition.
- pathspec — pathname
- patience — a female given name.
- patients — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- patinate — to cover or encrust with a patina.
- patinize — to coat with a patina
- patinous — patinated.
- patootie — buttocks; bottom
- patriate — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patricia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “patrician.”.
- patronal — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronne — a woman who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- pattamar — a courier; a person who delivers messages on foot
- pattened — any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- patterer — meaningless, rapid talk; mere chatter; gabble.
- patterns — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- pattress — a box for wiring in the space behind an electrical socket or switch
- pattypan — white bush (scallop)
- patulent — patulous
- patulous — open; gaping; expanded.
- paul iii — (Alessandro Farnese) 1468–1549, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1534–49.
- paul pry — an inquisitive, meddlesome person.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- paulette — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pauraque — a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
- pauropod — a member of the Pauropoda, a class of minute myriapods less than 2 mm (1⁄20 in.) in size, having 8 to 10 pairs of legs and branched antennae
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- pavement — a paved road, highway, etc.
- pavilion — a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
- pavillon — the bell of a wind instrument.
- paviotso — Northern Paiute (def 1).
- pavlodar — a city in NE Kazakhstan.