8-letter words containing p, r, a, e, n
- raptness — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- repo man — a person who is employed to take back or repossess property, esp because of failure to make payments under a hire-purchase agreement
- responsa — the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.
- roanpipe — a drainpipe leading down from a gutter
- saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shrapnel — Military. a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles. such projectiles collectively.
- spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- terrapin — any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered.
- transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- trapnest — a nesting box that can be entered but not exited by a hen, which is then released once its eggs have been counted
- trappean — of, relating to, or consisting of igneous rock, esp a basalt
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triptane — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- underlap — to extend partly under.
- underpay — to pay less than is deserved or usual.
- unpaired — not matched
- unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- unparted — not parted, not separated
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unpreach — to retract or undo (preaching)
- unreaped — (of a harvest, grain, field, etc) not reaped, cut, or gathered
- unrepaid — not repaid
- unrepair — lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation: in a state of unrepair.
- unspared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
- uplander — a person hailing from the uplands
- warplane — an airplane designed for, or used in, warfare.
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.