8-letter words containing e, p, i, t, r
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- gripenet — [IBM] A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system, deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels.
- griptape — a rough tape for sticking to a surface to provide a greater grip
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- hemipter — a hemipterous insect
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- herptile — A reptile or amphibian.
- hipsters — hipsters, Chiefly British. hiphuggers (def 2).
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- imparted — Simple past tense and past participle of impart.
- imparter — to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
- imperate — (obsolete) Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
- imported — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- importee — an imported person or thing.
- importer — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- imposter — a tax; tribute; duty.
- impresst — (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of impress.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- inexpert — not expert; unskilled.
- inputter — One who, or that which, inputs.
- interpel — (transitive, obsolete) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- intrepid — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- irrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of irrupt.
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- overtrip — to tread lightly over
- painture — the art or act of painting
- parakite — a series of linked kites used to attain higher altitudes
- 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.
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patriate — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- perentie — a large, brown and yellow monitor lizard, Varanus giganteus, native to arid and semiarid regions of Australia.
- perfecti — the elite group of the Cathars, characterized by their extreme asceticism, and thereby viewed by their followers as trans-material angels
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- periotic — surrounding the ear.