0%

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.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?