8-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- 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
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- picrated — containing picrate
- pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pillager — 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.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- 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.
- piranesi — Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
- pizzeria — a restaurant, bakery, or the like, where pizzas are made and sold.
- 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.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playwear — playclothes.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- 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.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- polestar — Polaris.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- ponderal — relating to weight
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- portable — portability
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- pourable — able to be poured
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praecipe — any of various legal writs commanding a defendant to do something or to appear and show why it should not be done.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- 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.
- praesepe — an open star cluster in the center of the constellation Cancer, visible to the naked eye.