8-letter words containing p, e, r, s
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- diopters — Plural form of diopter.
- dioptres — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- dispread — to spread out
- disprize — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- doorstep — a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.
- dopester — a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- dopplers — Plural form of doppler.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- dress up — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress-up — being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- droppers — Plural form of dropper.
- dropsley — a dish of very small dumplings made from a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning dropped in small pieces into broth.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- earflaps — Plural form of earflap.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- emperess — Obsolete form of empress.
- emperish — to damage or harm
- emperors — Plural form of emperor.
- empirics — Plural form of empiric.
- emplores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implore.
- empowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empower.
- empresse — keen; zealous
- emprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emprise.
- emptiers — Plural form of emptier.
- en prise — (of a chess piece) exposed to capture
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- encrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encrypt.
- engrasps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrasp.
- enprints — Plural form of enprint.
- ensphere — (transitive) To place in a sphere; to envelop.
- epergnes — Plural form of epergne.
- epicarps — Plural form of epicarp.
- epicures — Plural form of epicure.
- epicurus — An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement commonly known as Epicureanism.
- epigrams — Plural form of epigram.