8-letter words containing o, n, p, r, e
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- plectron — plectrum.
- 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.
- poitrine — a woman's bosom
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- pondered — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- ponderer — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- poorness — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- prenomen — praenomen.
- preowned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- press on — continue, persevere
- pression — an act of pressing
- pretonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- preunion — a meeting in advance of a permanent union
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- prodnose — an inquisitive person
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
- prolonge — a rope having a hook at one end and a toggle at the other, used for various purposes, as to draw a gun carriage.
- propenol — an organic compound used to make allyl alcohol
- propense — having a tendency toward; prone; inclined.
- propenyl — containing the propenyl group.
- proponed — to suggest for consideration; propose.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protense — extension in time
- provence — a region in SE France, bordering on the Mediterranean: formerly a province; famous for medieval poetry and courtly traditions.
- province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- pyrenoid — a spherical protein structure found within chloroplasts of certain algae and hornworts.
- pyronine — a xanthine dye used for detecting the presence of RNA.
- pyroxene — any of a very common group of minerals of many varieties, silicates of magnesium, iron, calcium, and other elements, occurring as important constituents of many kinds of rocks, especially basic igneous rocks.
- reopener — an act or instance of reopening negotiations, as on the provisions of a contract.
- replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.
- repo man — a person who is employed to take back or repossess property, esp because of failure to make payments under a hire-purchase agreement