8-letter words containing r, e, s, t
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- plaister — plaster.
- pointers — a person or thing that points.
- poitiers — a city in SE France, on the Rhone River, S of Lyons: Roman ruins.
- polestar — Polaris.
- pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- portesse — a small book of prayers, psalms, hymns, etc
- portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- portress — a woman who has charge of a door or gate; a female doorkeeper.
- portside — situated on the port side
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- postgres — (database) An active DBMS developed at the University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- powerset — (mathematics) The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- precents — to lead as a precentor in singing.
- precepts — a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- preexist — to exist beforehand.
- prepaste — to paste in advance
- prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
- presents — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- pressfat — a wine vat
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- prestige — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- prestore — Computers. to fix an opening value for (the address of an operand or of a cycle index).
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- pretaste — a taste of what may be experienced later
- pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
- pretties — pretty women
- previsit — to visit beforehand
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristine — having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prospect — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protense — extension in time
- proteose — any of a class of soluble compounds derived from proteins by the action of the gastric juices, pancreatic juices, etc.
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.