8-Letter Words Containing: P,E,S,A,N,T

• Any portion taken from a plant or an animal that will be used to initiate a culture. It can be a portion of the shoot, or of the leaves, or even just some cells.

• a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

• the act of paying money

• an act of requiting; returning in kind

• A pit filled with snakes.

• Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people.

• large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere

• flesh of a pheasant; usually braised

• of or relating to drama

• a theatrical performer

• a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat

• Usually in the plural form Pandects: a compendium or digest of writings on Roman law divided in 50 books, compiled in the 6th century C.E. by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (c. 482–565).

• (by extension) Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code.

• (by extension) A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic; specifically a manuscript of the entire Bible.

• utter speech sounds