8-letter words containing a, d, p, e
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- patented — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- 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.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pay deal — a negotiation or agreement concerning pay or salary
- pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
- pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- 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.
- pedaller — a person who pedals
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pedipalp — (in arachnids) one member of the usually longer pair of appendages immediately behind the chelicerae.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pheidias — Phidias
- picrated — containing picrate
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pig lead — lead molded in pigs.
- pileated — crested.
- pillaged — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pillared — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- placated — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- playdate — a gathering of children at a house for play
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.