8-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- polaroid — instant photograph
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- pre-aged — (used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the): We must have improved medical care for the aged.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- pre-date — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- preadapt — to undergo pre-adaptation.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- 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.
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- predated — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- predella — the base of an altarpiece, often decorated with small paintings or reliefs.
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- predrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prefaded — given a faded or worn look beforehand (as of jeans, etc)
- pregrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
- preradio — before the invention of radio
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- pushcard — punchboard.
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- 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.
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- raindrop — a drop of rain.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- rapeseed — the seed of the rape.
- rapidcad — (processor) A specially packaged Intel 486DX and a dummy floating point unit (FPU) designed as pin-compatible replacements for an Intel 80386 processor and 80387 FPU. Since the DX variant has a working on-chip FPU, a dummy FPU package is supplied to go in the 387 FPU socket.