8-letter words containing p, r, e, s, u
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- 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.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- 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.
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precurse — a foreshadowing or precursing
- prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
- preissue — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- prepubis — (in some animals) a bone situated in front of the pubis
- press-up — push-up.
- pressful — the quantity that a press can hold
- pressrun — the running of a printing press for a specific job: The pressrun will take about an hour.
- pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- presumed — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- preussen — German name of Prussia.
- previous — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- profuser — someone or something that is very wasteful of money
- prosumer — a person who both consumes and produces a particular commodity
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- pseudery — pretentious talk
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pureness — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- purities — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purseful — an amount which can be contained in a purse
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- purtiest — pretty.
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
- raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
- reperuse — to peruse again or afresh
- repousse — (of a design) raised in relief by hammering on the reverse side.
- repursue — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- resculpt — to sculpt again
- resprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
- resupine — lying on the back; supine.
- resupply — provide with sth
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw-up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrumple — to crumple or crush (something, esp a piece of paper) or (esp of a piece of paper) to become crumpled or crushed
- scrupler — a person with scruples
- scruples — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- serapeum — a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.