8-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pine tar — a very viscid, blackish-brown liquid having an odor resembling that of turpentine, obtained by the destructive distillation of pine wood, used in paints, roofing, soaps, and, medicinally, for skin infections.
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- pipewort — a perennial plant, Eriocaulon septangulare, of wet places in W Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and the eastern US, having a twisted flower stalk and a greenish-grey scaly flower head: family Eriocaulaceae
- placater — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plaister — plaster.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- pleather — a synthetic leather
- plectron — plectrum.
- plectrum — a small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- plentier — a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- pocketer — a person who pockets something
- poetizer — a person who composes verses, usually of an inferior nature
- pointers — a person or thing that points.
- poitiers — a city in SE France, on the Rhone River, S of Lyons: Roman ruins.
- poitrine — a woman's bosom
- pokeroot — pokeweed
- polestar — Polaris.
- pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- portable — portability
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- portered — (of an apartment block) serviced by a caretaker
- porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter
- portesse — a small book of prayers, psalms, hymns, etc
- portfire — (formerly) a slow-burning fuse used for firing rockets and fireworks and, in mining, for igniting explosives
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- portiere — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- portress — a woman who has charge of a door or gate; a female doorkeeper.
- portside — situated on the port side
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- postgres — (database) An active DBMS developed at the University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- powerset — (mathematics) The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.