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8-letter words containing i, p, r

  • peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
  • perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
  • pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
  • peter ii — 1923–70, king of Yugoslavia 1934–45.
  • petering — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
  • petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
  • petitory — requesting or entreating
  • petrillo — James Caesar, 1892–1984, U.S. labor leader: president of the American Federation of Musicians 1940–58.
  • petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
  • pfitzner — Hans Erich [hahns ey-rikh] /ˈhɑns ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1869–1949, German composer and conductor.
  • pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
  • pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
  • pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
  • philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
  • phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
  • phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
  • phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
  • phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
  • phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
  • phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
  • piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
  • picarian — a bird belonging to the picariae division of birds, which is extensive and includes woodpeckers, toucans and kingfishers among many more
  • picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
  • pichurim — a Brazilian laurel tree
  • piciform — of or relating to birds belonging to the six families which make up the order Piciformes. The best-known of these six is the Picidae family and the entire order is made up of mainly tree-haunting birds
  • pickerel — any of several small species of pike, as Esox niger (chain pickerel) and E. americanus americanus (redfin pickerel) of eastern North America.
  • pickford — Mary (Gladys Marie Smith) 1893–1979, U.S. motion-picture actress, born in Canada.
  • picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
  • picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
  • picrated — containing picrate
  • picritic — containing picrate; of or relating to picrate
  • pictural — a picture
  • pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
  • pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
  • piecener — (formerly, in cotton or woollen mills) someone (often a child) whose job was to join broken threads together
  • piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
  • piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
  • piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
  • pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
  • pierides — the Muses
  • piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
  • pig farm — a farm where pigs are kept and reared
  • pig fern — giant bracken
  • pig iron — iron tapped from a blast furnace and cast into pigs in preparation for conversion into steel, cast iron, or wrought iron.
  • pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
  • pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
  • pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
  • pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
  • pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
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