8-letter words containing t, o, p, r, i
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- isotropy — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- nonprint — of, relating to, or consisting of other than printed matter: Slide shows, slide-tape presentations, and video are nonprint media.
- offprint — Also called separate. a reprint of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.
- oltipraz — 4-methyl-5-(2-pyrazinyl)-3-dithiolethione, a schistosomicide drug also used in tumour prevention.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- outstrip — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- overtrip — to tread lightly over
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- periotic — surrounding the ear.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- petrillo — James Caesar, 1892–1984, U.S. labor leader: president of the American Federation of Musicians 1940–58.
- petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pillwort — a small Eurasian water fern, Pilularia globulifera, with globular spore-producing bodies and grasslike leaves
- pinkroot — the root of any of various plants belonging to the genus Spigelia, of the logania family, especially that of S. marilandica of the U.S., that is used as a vermifuge.
- pipewort — a perennial plant, Eriocaulon septangulare, of wet places in W Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and the eastern US, having a twisted flower stalk and a greenish-grey scaly flower head: family Eriocaulaceae
- piscator — fisherman.
- pit prop — a wooden beam used to prop up the roof of a tunnel in a coal mine
- pityroid — scaly; resembling bran.
- pliotron — any hot-cathode vacuum tube having an anode and one or more grids.
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- poetizer — a person who composes verses, usually of an inferior nature
- pointers — a person or thing that points.
- poitiers — a city in SE France, on the Rhone River, S of Lyons: Roman ruins.
- poitrine — a woman's bosom
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- poristic — of or relating to a porism
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- porosity — the state or quality of being porous.
- portfire — (formerly) a slow-burning fuse used for firing rockets and fireworks and, in mining, for igniting explosives
- portiere — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- portside — situated on the port side
- positron — an elementary particle having the same mass and spin as an electron but having a positive charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron's negative charge; the antiparticle of the electron.
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire