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8-letter words containing p, r, i, s

  • receipts — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
  • redilisp — R.M. Keller, U Utah. Dialect of Lisp used on the Rediflow machine, a derivative of FEL.
  • reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
  • repraise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rhizopus — any zygomycetous fungus of the genus Rhizopus, esp R. nigricans, a bread mould
  • rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
  • ropiness — resembling a rope or ropes: ropy muscles.
  • rose hip — hip2 .
  • rsvp'ing — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
  • 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.
  • sapphira — a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.
  • 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.
  • saprobic — saprophyte.
  • scarfpin — tiepin.
  • scorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Scorpionida, widely distributed in warmer parts of the world, having a long, narrow, segmented tail that terminates in a venomous sting.
  • scorpius — a large zodiacal constellation lying between Libra and Sagittarius and crossed by the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Antares
  • scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
  • scrimper — a person who scrimps
  • scrimpit — ungenerous
  • scrimply — sparingly
  • scripsit — he wrote (it); she wrote (it).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • sharpish — If you do something sharpish, you do it quickly, without any delay.
  • shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
  • shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
  • shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
  • 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.
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