8-letter words containing p, r, e, i, c
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- perfecti — the elite group of the Cathars, characterized by their extreme asceticism, and thereby viewed by their followers as trans-material angels
- pericarp — the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit, sometimes consisting of three layers, the epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- pericope — a selection or extract from a book.
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- periotic — surrounding the ear.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- pickerel — any of several small species of pike, as Esox niger (chain pickerel) and E. americanus americanus (redfin pickerel) of eastern North America.
- picrated — containing picrate
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
- piecener — (formerly, in cotton or woollen mills) someone (often a child) whose job was to join broken threads together
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- policier — French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praecipe — any of various legal writs commanding a defendant to do something or to appear and show why it should not be done.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- precieux — (of a man) overly fastidious or refined; precious; affected.
- precinct — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precised — a concise summary.
- precited — cited previously
- precrime — of or relating to law-enforcement efforts and strategies to deter crime by predicting when and where criminal activity will occur.
- prentice — a male given name.
- preprice — to price in advance
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- preslice — to slice in advance
- pretonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- princely — greatly liberal; lavish; magnificent: a princely entertainment.
- princeps — first edition.
- princess — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- principe — an island in the Gulf of Guinea, off the W coast of Africa: one of the two chief components of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. 54 sq. mi. (140 sq. km).
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- proclive — having an inclination towards an action; prone
- province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
- proxemic — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- re-price — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- receipts — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- repacify — to pacify again