8-letter words containing o, r, a, e
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- perorate — to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- 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.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- polestar — Polaris.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- 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.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- ponderal — relating to weight
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- 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
- portable — portability
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- pourable — able to be poured
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- premolar — situated in front of the molar teeth.
- premoral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- preradio — before the invention of radio
- pretoria — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- priorate — the office, rank, or term of office of a prior.
- probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- 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.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.