8-letter words containing a, t, r, e, s
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- 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.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- 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.
- 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
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- 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.
- plaister — plaster.
- polestar — Polaris.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- prepaste — to paste in advance
- pressfat — a wine vat
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- pretaste — a taste of what may be experienced later
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- 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.
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quartets — Plural form of quartet.
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- raptness — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
- rarities — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
- ratables — property that is liable to rates
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum