8-letter words containing a, p, u, r, e
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- 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).
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- 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.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- pourable — able to be poured
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- 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.
- prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
- prepupal — of the period between the larval and pupal stages
- prevalue — to value beforehand
- 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.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- puerpera — a woman who has recently given birth to a child.
- puggaree — pugree.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
- raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
- reuptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- serapeum — a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- stuprate — to ravish or rape
- superadd — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superate — overcome; surmounted; surpassed
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- superzap — (tool, IBM) An IBM utility program used to quickly patch operating system or application program executable code in preference to editing the source code and recompiling. The SuperZAP program was a quick hack written by one IBM Engineer, possibly from IBM UK, in the late 1960s to directly fix executable files. He needed to fix a bug but it would have taken hours to rebuild the vast OS/360 executables. The S/360 architecture has an instruction ZAP (Zero and Add Packed) for packed decmial arithmetic, that sets the byte at a given address to a given value. Superzap used this to write data given as a string of hex digits to a given location in an executable file in a matter of seconds. Soon the IBM development labs were releasing all Programming Temporary Fixes (PTFs) to OS/360 in this form. OS/360 included a version called IMASPZAP or AMASPZAP which persisted through MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, OS/390 and probably still remains in z/OS, the distant descendent of OS/360.