8-letter words containing s, i, r, p
- priggish — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- priggism — priggish character or ideas; priggishness.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primrose — Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
- primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
- princeps — first edition.
- princess — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- prioress — a woman holding a position corresponding to that of a prior, sometimes ranking next below an abbess.
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- prissily — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristina — the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement.
- pristine — having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- proggins — a university proctor
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- promisee — a person to whom a promise is made.
- promisor — a person who makes a promise.
- propolis — a reddish resinous cement collected by bees from the buds of trees, used to stop up crevices in the hives, strengthen the cells, etc.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- prosaist — a person who writes prose.
- prosodic — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- protasis — the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if. Compare apodosis.
- 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.
- protista — a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
- protists — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proudish — rather proud
- provirus — a viral form that is incorporated into the genetic material of a host cell.
- provisor — a purveyor
- provisos — a clause in a statute, contract, or the like, by which a condition is introduced.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- pruritus — itching.
- prussian — of or relating to Prussia or its inhabitants.
- psorosis — a disease of citrus trees, characterized by a scaly, rough bark, yellow-flecked leaves, and stunting, caused by a virus.
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purities — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- purtiest — pretty.
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.