8-letter words containing e, a, s, t, p
- paste-up — mechanical (def 14).
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastless — having no past
- pastness — the state or fact of being past.
- 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.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- pathspec — pathname
- patients — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- 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
- peasants — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pentosan — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- petalous — having petals.
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- 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.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- plaister — plaster.
- plateasm — the practice of talking with the mouth open too wide
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- polestar — Polaris.
- postages — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- potatoes — Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.