8-letter words containing r, a, p, t
- imperate — (obsolete) Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- jatropha — Any of several plants, of the genus Jatropha, native to the Northern Hemisphere; some have medicinal attributes and others are grown as a source of biodiesel.
- kalyptra — a veil worn by women in Greece
- la porte — a city in NW Indiana.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- man-trap — an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
- mantraps — Plural form of mantrap.
- marsport — a spoilsport
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- nonparty — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- norplant — a contraceptive implant for women surgically inserted under the skin of the upper arm so as to release progesterone or various other steroid hormones gradually over a period of several years
- oltipraz — 4-methyl-5-(2-pyrazinyl)-3-dithiolethione, a schistosomicide drug also used in tumour prevention.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- operator — a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator.
- operetta — a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- overpart — to give (an actor) too difficult a role
- pack rat — person who hoards or collects
- pack-rat — to save in the manner of a pack rat: I’m looking through the stuff my grandpa pack-ratted away in the attic.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palpator — a type of beetle with long maxillary appendages
- panthera — a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar.
- papistry — the Roman Catholic Church.
- parakeet — any of numerous small, slender parrots, usually having a long, pointed, graduated tail, often kept as pets and noted for the ability to mimic speech: several species are endangered.
- parakite — a series of linked kites used to attain higher altitudes
- parament — a decoration for a room, as a tapestry.
- paramita — any of the practices prescribed for one aspiring to nirvana.
- paranete — a note in ancient Greek music, the second highest note of the higher of two tetrachords
- paraquat — a toxic herbicide, C 1 2 H 1 4 N 2 ⋅2CH 3 SO 4 , applied to food and flower crops and to highway borders as a defoliant and weed-killer.
- paraquet — parakeet.
- parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- paratype — a specimen other than a type specimen that is used for the original description of a taxonomic group and specifically stated to be the one on which the original description of the taxon was based.
- paravant — first; pre-eminently
- paravent — a screen against a draft or the wind.
- parental — of or relating to a parent.
- parented — a father or a mother.
- pargeter — a plasterer
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.