8-letter words containing t, o, p, r, i
- postriot — of or relating to the period after a riot
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- pretonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- pretoria — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- printout — output produced by a printer, generally on continuous sheets of paper.
- prior to — before, earlier than
- priorate — the office, rank, or term of office of a prior.
- priority — the state or quality of being earlier in time, occurrence, etc.
- privy to — knowing: sth confidential
- procinct — the state of preparedness
- proditor — a traitor
- profiter — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- prosaist — a person who writes prose.
- 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.
- protonic — a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- reimport — to import back into the country of exportation.
- ridgetop — the summit of a ridge
- rip into — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- ripe rot — a disease of fruit or vegetable storage organs at the ripening stage, caused by any of several fungi or bacteria and characterized by spotting and rapid decay.
- rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
- sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- tip over — to cause to assume a slanting or sloping position; incline; tilt.
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- torpidly — inactive or sluggish.
- trimorph — a substance existing in three structurally distinct forms; a trimorphous substance.
- trip out — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
- trip-hop — a type of British electronic dance music of the 1990s, influenced by drug culture
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- triploid — having a chromosome number that is three times the basic or haploid number.
- tripodal — pertaining to or having the form of a tripod.
- tripodic — having or using three feet or legs.
- triptote — a word that has only three cases
- trooping — an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- tropaion — a tropaeum, especially in Greece.
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- troponin — a protein within a troponin complex that helps regulate the heartbeat and can be used as an indicator of myocardial infarction.
- troupial — any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- two pair — a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.