8-letter words containing p, e, t, i, s
- optimise — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patients — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pc-tiles — (language) A visual programming language.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- péquiste — in Canada, member or supporter of the Parti Québécois
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- peyotism — a religion of native American Indians that incorporates the ritual use of peyote
- peyotist — a person who follows the religion of peyotism
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- pickiest — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- pipestem — the stem of a tobacco pipe.
- pipettes — a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
- pisolite — limestone composed of rounded concretions about the size of a pea.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- pistolet — a small gun
- pithless — (of citrus fruit or peel) without any pith
- pitiless — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- plaister — plaster.
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- pointers — a person or thing that points.
- poitiers — a city in SE France, on the Rhone River, S of Lyons: Roman ruins.
- polemist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- politest — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- polities — a particular form or system of government: civil polity; ecclesiastical polity.
- pontoise — a department in N France. 482 sq. mi. (1248 sq. km). Capital: Pontoise.
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- portside — situated on the port side
- positive — admitting of no question: positive proof.
- postdive — following a dive, esp a scuba dive
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire