8-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- pejorate — to change for the worse
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- pentroof — a roof sloping in only one direction
- per cent — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- perceant — piercing; penetrating
- percepts — the mental result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
- perentie — a large, brown and yellow monitor lizard, Varanus giganteus, native to arid and semiarid regions of Australia.
- perfecta — exacta.
- perfecti — the elite group of the Cathars, characterized by their extreme asceticism, and thereby viewed by their followers as trans-material angels
- perfecto — a rather thick, medium-sized cigar tapering almost down to a point at each end.
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- periotic — surrounding the ear.
- peripety — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- peripter — (in Classical architecture) a building, esp a temple, with a single row of columns surrounding it on all sides
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- perorate — to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- perronet — Jean Rodolphe [zhahn raw-dawlf] /ʒɑ̃ rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1708–94, French engineer.
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- pestered — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- peter ii — 1923–70, king of Yugoslavia 1934–45.
- petering — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- peterlee — a new town in Co Durham, founded in 1948. Pop: 29 936 (2001)
- peterman — a safecracker.
- peterson — Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- petnaper — a person who thieves a pet in order to exact money in exchange for its return or to sell it
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- 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
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pfitzner — Hans Erich [hahns ey-rikh] /ˈhɑns ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1869–1949, German composer and conductor.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- 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
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.