8-letter words containing e, r, o, s, i
- oversize — of excessive size; unusually large: an oversize cigar.
- overskip — to skip over
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- overspin — topspin.
- overstir — to stir too much
- overswim — to swim across
- overwise — excessively or unusually wise: overwise for a child of her age.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- pointers — a person or thing that points.
- poisoner — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- poitiers — a city in SE France, on the Rhone River, S of Lyons: Roman ruins.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- porpoise — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- portside — situated on the port side
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
- pression — an act of pressing
- previous — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- previsor — to foresee.
- primrose — Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
- prioress — a woman holding a position corresponding to that of a prior, sometimes ranking next below an abbess.
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- promisee — a person to whom a promise is made.
- 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.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- recision — an act of canceling or voiding; cancellation.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- resinoid — resinlike.
- resinous — full of or containing resin.
- resistor — a device designed to introduce resistance into an electric circuit.
- resorcin — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.
- revision — the act or work of revising.
- revisory — pertaining to or for the purpose of revision.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.