8-letter words containing i, p, r
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- pliotron — any hot-cathode vacuum tube having an anode and one or more grids.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- poetizer — a person who composes verses, usually of an inferior nature
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- 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.
- poitrine — a woman's bosom
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- polaroid — instant photograph
- policier — French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- polybrid — a hybrid plant with more than two parental groups
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- poorwill — a small bird of North America
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- poriform — resembling a pore in form.
- poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
- poristic — of or relating to a porism
- pork pie — a snap-brimmed hat with a round, flat crown, usually made of felt.
- pork pig — a pig, typically of a lean type, bred and used principally for pork
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- porosity — the state or quality of being porous.
- 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.
- porridge — a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.
- porridgy — resembling the taste, texture, or appearance of porridge
- portfire — (formerly) a slow-burning fuse used for firing rockets and fireworks and, in mining, for igniting explosives
- portiere — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- portside — situated on the port side
- positron — an elementary particle having the same mass and spin as an electron but having a positive charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron's negative charge; the antiparticle of the electron.
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- postriot — of or relating to the period after a riot
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- poxvirus — any of a group of large, brick-shaped DNA-containing viruses that infect humans and other animals, including the viruses of smallpox and various other poxes.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praecipe — any of various legal writs commanding a defendant to do something or to appear and show why it should not be done.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- prairial — the month of meadows: the ninth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, extending from May 21 to June 19
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prakriti — (in Sankhya philosophy) primal matter or substance from which the physical and mental universe evolves under the influence of purusha.