8-letter words containing p, a, t, r
- polestar — Polaris.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- pop star — a famous singer or musician who performs pop music
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portaloo — a portable toilet
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portlast — the gunnel of a ship
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- post-war — following a major conflict
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potatory — of, relating to, or given to drinking.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prakriti — (in Sankhya philosophy) primal matter or substance from which the physical and mental universe evolves under the influence of purusha.
- pratfall — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- prattler — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pratyeka — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.
- pre-date — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- preadapt — to undergo pre-adaptation.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- prealtar — in front of the altar.
- prealter — to alter beforehand
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- predated — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
- premiate — to grant a prize or an award to.
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prepaste — to paste in advance