8-letter words containing i, a, p, e
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- panpipes — a primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of hollow pipes of graduated length, the tones being produced by blowing across the upper ends.
- papalize — to make papal or render Roman Catholic
- papillae — any small, nipplelike process or projection.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- papyrine — paper-like; papyral
- paradise — a town in N California.
- 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.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- 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.
- parishen — a parishioner
- parklike — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- 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.
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- 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.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- patience — a female given name.
- patients — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- patinate — to cover or encrust with a patina.
- patinize — to coat with a patina
- patootie — buttocks; bottom
- 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.
- pavonine — of or like a peacock.
- peacenik — an activist or demonstrator who opposes war and military intervention; pacifist.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- peaklike — resembling a peak
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc