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8-letter words containing p, r, e, d

  • pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
  • peddlery — the business of a peddler.
  • pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
  • pedicure — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
  • pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
  • pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
  • pedro ii — (Dom Pedro II) 1825–91, emperor of Brazil 1831–89.
  • pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
  • pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
  • peppered — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
  • per diem — by the day; for each day.
  • perdendo — (of a piece of music) getting gradually quieter and dying away
  • perfumed — Something such as fruit or wine that is perfumed has a sweet pleasant smell.
  • perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
  • periderm — Botany. the cork-producing tissue of stems together with the cork layers and other tissues derived from it.
  • peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
  • peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.
  • perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
  • periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
  • periodid — kind of iodide
  • perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
  • perjured — guilty of perjury.
  • peroxide — Chemistry. hydrogen peroxide, H 2 O 2 or H–O–O–H. a compound containing the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide, as sodium peroxide, Na 2 O 2 , or dimethyl peroxide, C 3 H 6 O 2 . the oxide of an element that contains an unusually large amount of oxygen.
  • perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus
  • persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • pestered — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
  • phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
  • picrated — containing picrate
  • piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
  • pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
  • pierides — the Muses
  • piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
  • pillared — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
  • podomere — any segment of a limb of an arthropod.
  • poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
  • pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
  • ponderal — relating to weight
  • pondered — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
  • ponderer — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
  • porridge — a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.
  • portered — (of an apartment block) serviced by a caretaker
  • portside — situated on the port side
  • potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
  • powdered — finely granulated
  • praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
  • pre-aged — (used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the): We must have improved medical care for the aged.
  • pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
  • pre-date — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
  • pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
  • pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
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