8-letter words containing a, s, e, o, r
- oversalt — to put too much salt in
- oversave — to put (too much money) into savings
- overseas — over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
- oversman — an overseer
- oversoak — to soak too much
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- oversway — to overrule
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- 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.
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- 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.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polestar — Polaris.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
- 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.
- 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.
- psoralea — any plant of the tropical and subtropical leguminous genus Psoralea, having curly leaves, white or purple flowers, and short one-seeded pods
- psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reabsorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- reassort — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- releasor — a person who releases an estate to someone else
- reseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- responsa — the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.