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8-letter words containing r, e, p, l

  • oilpaper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
  • operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
  • opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
  • overleap — to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
  • overplan — to plan excessively
  • overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
  • overplot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
  • overslip — to leave out; miss.
  • owerloup — an encroachment
  • pale dry — light in color and not sweet
  • pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
  • palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
  • palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
  • palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
  • palpebra — an eyelid
  • panderly — in the manner of a pander
  • papelera — a small Renaissance cabinet for papers and writing materials, mounted on a small stand.
  • parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
  • parabole — a simile
  • paraffle — an extravagant display
  • parallel — parallel processing
  • paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
  • paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
  • parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
  • parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
  • parental — of or relating to a parent.
  • parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
  • parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
  • parklike — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
  • parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
  • parlayed — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
  • parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
  • partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
  • particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
  • paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
  • pearland — a town in SE Texas.
  • pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
  • pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
  • pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
  • pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
  • pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
  • pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
  • pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
  • peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
  • pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
  • pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
  • pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
  • pedaller — a person who pedals
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