8-letter words containing l, i, e, a, r
- 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.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- 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.
- plaister — plaster.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- 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.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- prizable — of worth
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- radiable — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
- ramillie — a wig with a long plait at the back, fashionable in the 18th century
- rape oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- raveling — a tangle or complication.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- re-align — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- re-avail — to avail (someone or something) again
- re-claim — to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realises — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- realized — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realties — real property or real estate.
- reassail — to assail (someone or something) again
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- receival — the act of receiving or state of being received; receipt
- regalian — of or relating to regalia or royalty
- regaling — to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.