8-letter words containing a, p, r, e, t
- perorate — to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- peterman — a safecracker.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petnaper — a person who thieves a pet in order to exact money in exchange for its return or to sell it
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- picrated — containing picrate
- pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
- placater — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plaister — plaster.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- pleather — a synthetic leather
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- polestar — Polaris.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- portable — portability
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- prattler — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pratyeka — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.
- pre-date — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- preadapt — to undergo pre-adaptation.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- prealtar — in front of the altar.
- prealter — to alter beforehand
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- predated — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.