8-letter words containing p, i, n, e, r
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- intrepid — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- isoprene — a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.
- junipers — Plural form of juniper.
- kidnaper — Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
- leporine — of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- open-air — existing in, taking place in, or characteristic of the open air; outdoor: The orchestra gave three open-air concerts last summer.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- overspin — topspin.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- papyrine — paper-like; papyral
- parishen — a parishioner
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- 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.
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- perigyny — Botany. a perigynous condition.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- perineum — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- persians — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- petering — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- pfitzner — Hans Erich [hahns ey-rikh] /ˈhɑns ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1869–1949, German composer and conductor.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- piecener — (formerly, in cotton or woollen mills) someone (often a child) whose job was to join broken threads together
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- pig fern — giant bracken
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pilsener — a light Bohemian lager beer, traditionally served in a tall, conical, footed glass (Pilsener glass)