8-letter words containing l, o, r, e, i
- overlain — past participle of overlie.
- overlied — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overlier — someone or something that overlies
- overline — a cutline, usually of one line, appearing over a picture, cartoon, etc.
- overlive — to live longer than (another person)
- overmild — too mild
- overmilk — to milk too much
- oversail — a projection
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- overtoil — to work too hard
- overveil — to cover over
- overwily — too crafty
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- pelorize — to affect with peloria.
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- 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
- 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.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- 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.
- preludio — a musical prelude
- pro-life — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- proclive — having an inclination towards an action; prone
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- profiled — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiler — any of several types of machine tools for reproducing shapes in metal or other materials from a master form.
- prolifer — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- pyrolize — to subject (a substance) to pyrolysis.
- 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.
- reboiler — A reboiler is a stage in distillation when a liquid is heated again to make some of it become a vapor.
- recoiled — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
- regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- religio- — religion, religious, religion and
- religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- retailor — to make (clothing) suitable for a new person or purpose by changing the details
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- riopelle — Jean Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1923–2002, Canadian painter, in France from 1946.
- rivulose — (of plants) having irregular lines
- rocaille — Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.