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8-letter words containing o, p, s, e, r

  • overspin — topspin.
  • overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
  • parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
  • passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
  • passover — Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel.
  • pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
  • paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
  • perclose — parclose.
  • pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
  • peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
  • peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
  • peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
  • persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
  • personae — a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
  • personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
  • peterson — Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
  • petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
  • pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • 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.
  • pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
  • polarise — to cause polarization in.
  • polestar — Polaris.
  • polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
  • pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
  • poorness — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
  • popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
  • poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
  • porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
  • 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.
  • portesse — a small book of prayers, psalms, hymns, etc
  • portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
  • portress — a woman who has charge of a door or gate; a female doorkeeper.
  • portside — situated on the port side
  • postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
  • postgres — (database)   An active DBMS developed at the University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
  • postrace — designating the period after a race
  • potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
  • powerset — (mathematics)   The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
  • pre-loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
  • pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
  • precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • preclose — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
  • prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
  • premorse — having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.
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