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8-letter words containing a, p, e, r

  • parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
  • parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
  • paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
  • paroquet — parakeet.
  • parroket — parakeet.
  • parroted — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • parroter — a person who repeats the words or ideas of others
  • parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
  • partaken — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
  • partaker — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
  • parterre — Also called parquet circle. the rear section of seats, and sometimes also the side sections, of the main floor of a theater, concert hall, or opera house.
  • partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
  • particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
  • partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
  • partners — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
  • parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
  • passerby — a person passing by.
  • passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
  • passover — Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel.
  • pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
  • pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
  • 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.
  • pasturer — a person who tends pasturing livestock
  • patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • patrones — 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
  • 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
  • pauraque — a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
  • paygrade — a level on a pay scale
  • pea crab — any of several tiny crabs of the family Pinnotheridae, the female of which lives as a commensal in the shells of bivalve mollusks.
  • peaberry — a single seed coffee berry; a round coffee bean
  • pear haw — a shrub or small tree, Crataegus uniflora, of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the U.S., having pear-shaped, orange-red fruit.
  • pearland — a town in SE Texas.
  • pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
  • pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
  • pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
  • 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
  • pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
  • pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
  • pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
  • pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
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