8-letter words containing p, e, r
- departee — a person who departs or has departed
- departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys
- depender — (programming) An agent that depends on another agent, the dependee; the subject of a dependency, a dependent (used in w agent-oriented programming).
- depicter — A person who depicts (a specified subject).
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depleter — a thing that depletes something
- deplored — to regret deeply or strongly; lament: to deplore the present state of morality.
- deplorer — One who deplores.
- deplores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplore.
- deployer — a person or thing that deploys
- deported — Simple past tense and past participle of deport.
- deportee — A deportee is someone who is being deported.
- deporter — a person or thing that deports
- depraved — Depraved actions, things, or people are morally bad or evil.
- depraver — One who depraves or corrupts.
- depraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave.
- deprenyl — a drug used to treat senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression, by acting as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- depretis — Agostino (aɡoˈstiːno). 1813–87, Italian statesman; prime minister (1876–78; 1878–79; 1881–87). His policy led to the Triple Alliance (1882) between Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- deprived — Deprived people or people from deprived areas do not have the things that people consider to be essential in life, for example acceptable living conditions or education.
- depriver — Agent noun of deprive; one who deprives.
- deprives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprive.
- deptford — a district in the Greater London borough of Lewisham, on the S bank of the River Thames: formerly the site of the Royal Naval dockyard
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- des pres — Josquin (ʒɔskɛ̃). ?1450–1521, Flemish Renaissance composer of masses, motets, and chansons
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despiser — to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- 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.
- diplexer — a device that can split and combine audio and video signals, permitting two transmitters to share the same antenna.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- 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.
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.