8-letter words containing p, r, i, a, t
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
- pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- piscator — fisherman.
- pitcairn — British island in Polynesia, in the South Pacific: 1.8 sq mi (4.6 sq km); pop. 54
- pith ray — medullary ray.
- plaister — plaster.
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- prakriti — (in Sankhya philosophy) primal matter or substance from which the physical and mental universe evolves under the influence of purusha.
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- premiate — to grant a prize or an award to.
- pretoria — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- pretrain — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- 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.
- primatal — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- priorate — the office, rank, or term of office of a prior.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristina — the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prosaist — a person who writes prose.
- protasis — the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if. Compare apodosis.
- protista — a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapidity — a rapid state or quality; quickness; celerity.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- starlisp — *LISP
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples