8-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i
- policier — French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
- prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- predrill — to drill holes in (something) or to drill (holes) in advance
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- prelimit — to limit within bounds beforehand: The chairman prelimited his speech to 10 minutes.
- preludio — a musical prelude
- preppily — in a preppy manner
- preslice — to slice in advance
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- pretrial — a proceeding held by a judge, arbitrator, etc., before a trial to simplify the issues of law and fact and stipulate certain matters between the parties, in order to expedite justice and curtail costs at the trial.
- prettily — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- prideful — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- princely — greatly liberal; lavish; magnificent: a princely entertainment.
- prizable — of worth
- pro-life — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- proclive — having an inclination towards an action; prone
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- profiled — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiler — any of several types of machine tools for reproducing shapes in metal or other materials from a master form.
- prolifer — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- pulpiter — a preacher
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- pyrolize — to subject (a substance) to pyrolysis.
- rape oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- redilisp — R.M. Keller, U Utah. Dialect of Lisp used on the Rediflow machine, a derivative of FEL.
- replevin — an action for the recovery of goods or chattels wrongfully taken or detained.
- replicar — a custom-made or individually produced automobile whose body is a copy of a vintage or classic automobile.
- replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- repplier — Agnes, 1855–1950, U.S. essayist.
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- resplice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- riopelle — Jean Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1923–2002, Canadian painter, in France from 1946.
- rippable — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- ropelike — a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles