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8-letter words containing e, r, n, s

  • piranesi — Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
  • pointers — a person or thing that points.
  • poisoner — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
  • poorness — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
  • poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
  • porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
  • precents — to lead as a precentor in singing.
  • prenasal — a bone in the front of the nose
  • prepense — planned or intended in advance; premeditated.
  • prerinse — a preliminary rinse before further treatment
  • prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
  • presence — the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
  • presents — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
  • press on — continue, persevere
  • pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
  • pression — an act of pressing
  • pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
  • pressrun — the running of a printing press for a specific job: The pressrun will take about an hour.
  • pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
  • preussen — German name of Prussia.
  • primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
  • princeps — first edition.
  • princess — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
  • prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
  • pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
  • pristine — having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
  • prodnose — an inquisitive person
  • prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
  • propense — having a tendency toward; prone; inclined.
  • proseman — a writer of prose
  • proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • protense — extension in time
  • pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
  • psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
  • punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
  • pureness — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
  • purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
  • pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
  • pyrenees — mountains between France and Spain
  • raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
  • ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
  • raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
  • rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
  • rankness — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
  • ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
  • ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
  • raptness — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
  • rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
  • ratsbane — rat poison.
  • ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
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