8-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- 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
- pedaller — a person who pedals
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pejorate — to change for the worse
- pellagra — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pellekar — palikar.
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- per-oral — administered or performed through the mouth, as surgery or administration of a drug.
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- perborax — sodium perborate.
- perceant — piercing; penetrating
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- perfecta — exacta.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- pericarp — the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit, sometimes consisting of three layers, the epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- permease — any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- 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.
- persians — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
- personae — a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- peterman — a safecracker.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.