8-letter words containing l, e, t, r, p
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- plentier — a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- polestar — Polaris.
- pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- portable — portability
- porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prattler — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- prealtar — in front of the altar.
- prealter — to alter beforehand
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prelimit — to limit within bounds beforehand: The chairman prelimited his speech to 10 minutes.
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- preplant — occurring before planting
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- prettily — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- pulpiter — a preacher
- purulent — full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- repletes — abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually followed by with): a speech replete with sentimentality.
- reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- resculpt — to sculpt again
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- sparklet — a small spark.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- splutter — to talk rapidly and somewhat incoherently, as when confused, excited, or embarrassed: When pushed for an explanation, he always spluttered.
- sprattle — a struggle; fight.
- teleport — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.