8-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- subprime — being of less than top quality: a subprime grade of steel.
- superfit — extremely fit
- superfix — a suprasegmental feature having an identifiable meaning or grammatical function, as the stress pattern that distinguishes the noun record from the verb record or the parallel falling stress patterns of blackbird and highchair, reflecting a parallel relationship between the elements.
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- superior — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- superlie — to lie above
- supplier — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- 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
- tephrite — a basaltic rock consisting essentially of pyroxene and plagioclase with nepheline or leucite.
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- terrapin — any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered.
- tide-rip — a rip caused by conflicting tidal currents or by a tidal current crossing a rough bottom.
- tip over — to cause to assume a slanting or sloping position; incline; tilt.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- trapezia — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- trephine — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triple a — anti-aircraft artillery
- triplets — three children born at the same time to the same mother
- triplite — a dark-brown, massive mineral, fluorophosphate of iron and manganese.
- trippery — like a tripper
- trippler — a horse that moves at a tripple
- triptane — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- triptote — a word that has only three cases
- tripwire — a wire used to set off concealed explosives, as one stretched across a footpath to be struck and activated by the foot of an enemy soldier.
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- turnpike — a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- uncipher — to decode; decipher
- underlip — the lower lip
- underpin — to prop up or support from below; strengthen, as by reinforcing a foundation.
- unpaired — not matched
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unpriced — not priced; having no price shown or set.
- unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
- unprimed — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- unprized — not treasured or valued
- unrepaid — not repaid
- unrepair — lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation: in a state of unrepair.
- unripely — in an unripe manner