8-letter words containing p, u, r, e
- hesperus — an evening star, especially Venus.
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- imperium — command; supreme power.
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impugner — One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
- impurely — In an impure manner.
- impurple — Alternative form of empurple.
- inputter — One who, or that which, inputs.
- irrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of irrupt.
- junipers — Plural form of juniper.
- kerplunk — with or as if with a sudden muffled thud: The huge stone hit the water kerplunk.
- larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- nenuphar — A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- occupier — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- offer up — present as a sacrifice
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outpower — to have more power than or defeat by power
- outpreen — to exceed in preening
- outpress — to press out
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- overjump — to jump too far over
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- overpump — to pump too much so as to deplete
- owerloup — an encroachment
- painture — the art or act of painting
- paraquet — parakeet.
- paroquet — parakeet.
- parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pasturer — a person who tends pasturing livestock
- pauraque — a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedicure — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- perfumed — Something such as fruit or wine that is perfumed has a sweet pleasant smell.
- perfumer — a person or thing that perfumes.
- perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.