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8-letter words containing p, e, r, n

  • panthera — a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar.
  • papyrine — paper-like; papyral
  • parament — a decoration for a room, as a tapestry.
  • paranete — a note in ancient Greek music, the second highest note of the higher of two tetrachords
  • paranoea — Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
  • paravane — an underwater defensive device against mines, consisting of a pair of torpedo-shaped vanes towed at the bow of a ship, usually a minesweeper, by cables that can cut the cable of a moored mine, causing the mine to rise to the surface, where it can be destroyed or removed from the water.
  • paravent — a screen against a draft or the wind.
  • parcener — a joint heir; coheir.
  • pardoner — a person who pardons.
  • parental — of or relating to a parent.
  • parented — a father or a mother.
  • parergon — something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.
  • parishen — a parishioner
  • parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
  • parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • partaken — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
  • partners — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
  • parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
  • patentor — a person or official agency that grants patents.
  • paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
  • 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.
  • patronne — a woman who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
  • patterns — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
  • pearland — a town in SE Texas.
  • pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
  • pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
  • pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
  • pecorino — a dry, hard Italian cheese made of ewe's milk, especially Romano.
  • pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
  • peignoir — a woman's dressing gown.
  • pelerine — a woman's cape of fur or cloth, usually waist-length in back with long descending ends in front.
  • pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
  • pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
  • pentarch — a government by five persons.
  • pentroof — a roof sloping in only one direction
  • penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
  • penwiper — a piece of equipment for cleaning the ink from a pen
  • peperino — a brown or grey rock (tuff) consisting of condensed and cemented volcanic ash, sand, etc, esp that found outside Rome in the Albano Hills
  • peperoni — a highly seasoned, hard sausage of beef and pork.
  • per cent — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
  • per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
  • perceant — piercing; penetrating
  • percolin — a pain-relieving drug
  • perdendo — (of a piece of music) getting gradually quieter and dying away
  • perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
  • perentie — a large, brown and yellow monitor lizard, Varanus giganteus, native to arid and semiarid regions of Australia.
  • perforin — a protein produced by killer cells of the immune system that causes disintegration of targeted cells by forming pores in their membranes.
  • pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
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