8-letter words containing s, t, p, e, r
- imposter — a tax; tribute; duty.
- impresst — (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of impress.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- outpress — to press out
- overpost — to hurry over
- overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- percepts — the mental result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pestered — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- peterson — Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- 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.
- 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