8-letter words containing p, r, i, s
- conspire — If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it.
- corpsing — Present participle of corpse.
- coscript — to script jointly
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crimpers — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- cripples — Plural form of cripple.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- crispens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crispen.
- crispers — Plural form of crisper.
- crispest — Superlative form of crisp.
- crisping — Present participle of crisp.
- cropsick — unwell as a result of excessive eating or drinking
- cryptids — Plural form of cryptid.
- culprits — Plural form of culprit.
- cuspidor — spittoon
- demireps — Plural form of demirep.
- depretis — Agostino (aɡoˈstiːno). 1813–87, Italian statesman; prime minister (1876–78; 1878–79; 1881–87). His policy led to the Triple Alliance (1882) between Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany
- deprives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprive.
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despiser — to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- diopters — Plural form of diopter.
- dioptres — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispirit — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- dispread — to spread out
- disprize — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disproof — the act of disproving.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- emperish — to damage or harm
- empirics — Plural form of empiric.
- emprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emprise.
- emptiers — Plural form of emptier.