8-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- simpered — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- sleipnir — the eight-legged horse of Odin.
- slipover — of or denoting a garment that can be put on easily over the head
- slippers — Slippers are loose, soft shoes that you wear in your room.
- slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spermine — a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- spinnery — a spinning mill.
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spirifer — any of various fossil brachiopods of the genus Spirifer having spirals on each side
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoonier — foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sprigged — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- springed — a snare for catching small game.
- springer — a person or thing that springs.
- sprinkle — to scatter (a liquid, powder, etc.) in drops or particles: She sprinkled powder on the baby.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- spritzer — a tall drink made with chilled wine and soda.
- spruiker — to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate.
- spurrier — a maker of spurs.
- spurries — spurry.
- stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- stripper — a person who strips.
- stupider — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.