8-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- competer — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- coparent — a fellow parent
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- crispest — Superlative form of crisp.
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cyberpet — an electronic toy that simulates the activities of a pet, requiring the owner to feed, discipline, and entertain it
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- departed — Departed friends or relatives are people who have died.
- departee — a person who departs or has departed
- departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys
- depicter — A person who depicts (a specified subject).
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depleter — a thing that depletes something
- deported — Simple past tense and past participle of deport.
- deportee — A deportee is someone who is being deported.
- deporter — a person or thing that deports
- 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
- deptford — a district in the Greater London borough of Lewisham, on the S bank of the River Thames: formerly the site of the Royal Naval dockyard
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- 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.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- disputer — One who disputes.
- doorstep — a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.
- dopester — a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- drop tee — a tee having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- drupelet — a little drupe, as one of the individual pericarps composing the blackberry.
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthpea — the peanut.
- ectropic — pertaining to ectropion
- ego trip — sth done to satisfy yourself
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron