8-letter words containing s, p, e, r
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
- paramese — a note in ancient Greek music, the note above the mese
- 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.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parishen — a parishioner
- parmesan — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- partners — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- passerby — a person passing by.
- passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
- passover — Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel.
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pasturer — a person who tends pasturing livestock
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patterns — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- pattress — a box for wiring in the space behind an electrical socket or switch
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- peerless — having no equal; matchless; unrivaled.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- percepts — the mental result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
- perclose — parclose.
- perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- permease — any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus