8-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- repacify — to pacify again
- repaired — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repairer — a person or thing that repairs.
- repining — to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- 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.
- repraise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- repriced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- repriefe — a reproof; reproach
- reprieve — to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
- reprimed — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- reprised — Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- 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.
- repurify — to purify again, make pure again
- rescript — a written answer, as of a Roman emperor or a pope, to a query or petition in writing.
- respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- resplice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- respring — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- resupine — lying on the back; supine.
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- ridgetop — the summit of a ridge
- riopelle — Jean Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1923–2002, Canadian painter, in France from 1946.
- rip-tide — a tide that opposes another or other tides, causing a violent disturbance in the sea.
- ripe rot — a disease of fruit or vegetable storage organs at the ripening stage, caused by any of several fungi or bacteria and characterized by spotting and rapid decay.
- rippable — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
- roanpipe — a drainpipe leading down from a gutter
- 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.
- ropiness — resembling a rope or ropes: ropy muscles.
- rose hip — hip2 .
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- scrimper — a person who scrimps
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scripter — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- 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.
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- serendip — Arabic name of Sri Lanka.
- 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