8-letter words containing r, e, l, i, c
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
- pickerel — any of several small species of pike, as Esox niger (chain pickerel) and E. americanus americanus (redfin pickerel) of eastern North America.
- policier — French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- preslice — to slice in advance
- princely — greatly liberal; lavish; magnificent: a princely entertainment.
- proclive — having an inclination towards an action; prone
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- re-claim — to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
- receival — the act of receiving or state of being received; receipt
- recircle — to circle again
- recliner — a person or thing that reclines.
- recoiled — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
- relacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- replicar — a custom-made or individually produced automobile whose body is a copy of a vintage or classic automobile.
- replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- resplice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- reticule — a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- rocaille — Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.
- rocklike — Something that is rocklike is very strong or firm, and is unlikely to change.
- rolliche — roulade (def 2).
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- schiller — Ferdinand Canning Scott [kan-ing] /ˈkæn ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1937, English philosopher in the U.S.
- sclereid — a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.
- sclerite — any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
- scleroid — hard or indurated.
- scribble — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- scriggle — to wriggle
- scurrile — scurrilous.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- sickerly — surely
- silencer — a person or thing that silences.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
- telechir — a robot arm controlled by a human operator
- telergic — relating to telergy
- telluric — of or containing tellurium, especially in the hexavalent state.