8-letter words containing a, p, r, s, e
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paramese — a note in ancient Greek music, the note above the mese
- parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parishen — a parishioner
- parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- 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.
- 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
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- 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
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- permease — any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- 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.
- plaister — plaster.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polestar — Polaris.