8-letter words containing i, p, r
- pilferer — petty thief
- pilgrims — a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- piliform — having the form of a hair; resembling hair.
- pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pillared — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
- pillwort — a small Eurasian water fern, Pilularia globulifera, with globular spore-producing bodies and grasslike leaves
- pilsener — a light Bohemian lager beer, traditionally served in a tall, conical, footed glass (Pilsener glass)
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin mark — the circular indentation on the upper part of a type body, made by the pin that ejects the type from the caster.
- pin rail — Theater. a rail on a fly gallery, wall, etc., holding two rows of pins or cleats for securing lines attached to scenery.
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
- pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
- pinkroot — the root of any of various plants belonging to the genus Spigelia, of the logania family, especially that of S. marilandica of the U.S., that is used as a vermifuge.
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- pinprick — any minute puncture made by a pin or the like.
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- piperine — a white, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 , obtained from pepper and other piperaceous plants and also prepared synthetically: used as an insecticide.
- pipework — pipes and stops on an organ
- pipewort — a perennial plant, Eriocaulon septangulare, of wet places in W Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and the eastern US, having a twisted flower stalk and a greenish-grey scaly flower head: family Eriocaulaceae
- pipperoo — pip3 (def 2).
- 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.
- pirapora — a city in E Brazil.
- pirarucu — the arapaima.
- pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pirozhki — small triangular pastries filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- piscator — fisherman.
- pisiform — having the shape of a pea; pea-shaped.
- pissarro — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1830–1903, French painter.
- pisspoor — of extremely inferior or disappointing quality or rating.
- pit prop — a wooden beam used to prop up the roof of a tunnel in a coal mine
- pitcairn — British island in Polynesia, in the South Pacific: 1.8 sq mi (4.6 sq km); pop. 54
- pith ray — medullary ray.
- pityroid — scaly; resembling bran.
- pizzeria — a restaurant, bakery, or the like, where pizzas are made and sold.
- plagiary — plagiarism.
- plaister — plaster.
- planaria — freshwater or saltwater flatworms of the family Planariidae, that are widely used in laboratory work because of their ability to regenerate parts of the body easily
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- playgirl — a woman who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- plentier — a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
- pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.