8-letter words containing r, e, p, l
- peddlery — the business of a peddler.
- peerless — having no equal; matchless; unrivaled.
- pelerine — a woman's cape of fur or cloth, usually waist-length in back with long descending ends in front.
- pellagra — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pellekar — palikar.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- pelorize — to affect with peloria.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- per mill — per thousand.
- per-oral — administered or performed through the mouth, as surgery or administration of a drug.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- 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.
- perclose — parclose.
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- peterlee — a new town in Co Durham, founded in 1948. Pop: 29 936 (2001)
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petrillo — James Caesar, 1892–1984, U.S. labor leader: president of the American Federation of Musicians 1940–58.
- petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pickerel — any of several small species of pike, as Esox niger (chain pickerel) and E. americanus americanus (redfin pickerel) of eastern North America.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pilferer — petty thief
- pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pillared — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pillaret — a small pillar.
- pilsener — a light Bohemian lager beer, traditionally served in a tall, conical, footed glass (Pilsener glass)
- placater — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plaister — plaster.
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playwear — playclothes.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleather — a synthetic leather
- plectron — plectrum.
- plectrum — a small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied