8-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- prenasal — a bone in the front of the nose
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
- preparer — to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
- prepaste — to paste in advance
- preplace — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- preplant — occurring before planting
- prepupal — of the period between the larval and pupal stages
- preradio — before the invention of radio
- prerenal — in front of the kidney
- presager — a presentiment or foreboding.
- preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- pressfat — a wine vat
- pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- pretaste — a taste of what may be experienced later
- pretexta — praetexta.
- pretoria — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- pretrain — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- pretreat — to treat in advance or as part of a preliminary treatment: to pretreat wood before staining it.
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- prevalue — to value beforehand
- priapean — priapic.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- priorate — the office, rank, or term of office of a prior.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prizable — of worth
- prizeman — a man who wins a prize
- probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- provable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- prunella — a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.