8-letter words containing a, s, r, i
- prosaist — a person who writes prose.
- protasis — the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if. Compare apodosis.
- protista — a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
- prussian — of or relating to Prussia or its inhabitants.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- rachitis — rickets.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- radiants — Plural form of radiant.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radiatus — (of a cloud) having bands that appear to converge toward a point on the horizon.
- radisson — Pierre Esprit [es-pree] /ɛs pri/ (Show IPA), 1636?–1710? French fur trader and explorer in Canada.
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- railings — a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- rallyist — a person who participates in automobile rallies.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- ramis ii — Rapid Access Management Information System. A database from On-Line Software International.
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- rarities — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
- rasmalai — an Indian dessert made from cheese, milk, and almonds
- rasorial — given to scratching the ground for food, as chickens; gallinaceous.
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realises — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- realties — real property or real estate.
- reassail — to assail (someone or something) again
- reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- reassist — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism