8-letter words containing s, e, r, i, a
- nearside — (British) the left side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle.
- neustria — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- nitrates — Plural form of nitrate.
- notaries — Plural form of notary.
- notarise — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- oresteia — a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides.
- organise — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- outraise — To raise more of something than someone else; often used specifically in reference to fundraising.
- oversail — a projection
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- paradise — a town in N California.
- 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.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parishen — a parishioner
- partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- persians — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- piranesi — Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
- plaister — plaster.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- rarities — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.