8-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i
- lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- liripipe — a hood with a long, hanging peak, worn originally by medieval academics and later adopted for general wear in the 14th and 15th centuries.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- milarepa — (tool) A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- oilpaper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- parklike — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- 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.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- pelerine — a woman's cape of fur or cloth, usually waist-length in back with long descending ends in front.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- pelorize — to affect with peloria.
- per mill — per thousand.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- 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
- pickerel — any of several small species of pike, as Esox niger (chain pickerel) and E. americanus americanus (redfin pickerel) of eastern North America.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pilferer — petty thief
- pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- 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.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pilsener — a light Bohemian lager beer, traditionally served in a tall, conical, footed glass (Pilsener glass)
- plaister — plaster.
- plentier — a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
- pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.