8-letter words containing p, r, a, i, s
- dispread — to spread out
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- epicarps — Plural form of epicarp.
- epigrams — Plural form of epigram.
- espalier — A fruit tree or ornamental shrub whose branches are trained to grow flat against a wall, supported on a lattice or a framework of stakes.
- grampies — Plural form of grampy.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- hairpins — Plural form of hairpin.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- harpings — any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- harpists — Plural form of harpist.
- hesperia — a poetic name used by the ancient Greeks for Italy and by the Romans for Spain or beyond
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
- mariposa — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- misparse — To parse incorrectly.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- papistry — the Roman Catholic Church.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- paraison — parison.
- parasail — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- 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.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- parisian — a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- 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.
- 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.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- 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.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.