8-letter words containing p, i, t, r
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- outstrip — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- overtrip — to tread lightly over
- painture — the art or act of painting
- papistry — the Roman Catholic Church.
- parakite — a series of linked kites used to attain higher altitudes
- paramita — any of the practices prescribed for one aspiring to nirvana.
- 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.
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- parthian — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- partisan — a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
- partizan — partisan2 .
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
- pastrami — a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patriate — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patricia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “patrician.”.
- pay dirt — soil, gravel, or ore that can be mined profitably.
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- perentie — a large, brown and yellow monitor lizard, Varanus giganteus, native to arid and semiarid regions of Australia.
- perfecti — the elite group of the Cathars, characterized by their extreme asceticism, and thereby viewed by their followers as trans-material angels
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- periotic — surrounding the ear.
- peripety — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- peripter — (in Classical architecture) a building, esp a temple, with a single row of columns surrounding it on all sides
- 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.
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- peter ii — 1923–70, king of Yugoslavia 1934–45.
- petering — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- petrillo — James Caesar, 1892–1984, U.S. labor leader: president of the American Federation of Musicians 1940–58.
- petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
- pfitzner — Hans Erich [hahns ey-rikh] /ˈhɑns ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1869–1949, German composer and conductor.
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- picrated — containing picrate