8-letter words containing u, p, r, a
- parcours — parcourse.
- paroquet — parakeet.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
- pastural — 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.
- 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
- paul pry — an inquisitive, meddlesome person.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pauraque — a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
- pauropod — a member of the Pauropoda, a class of minute myriapods less than 2 mm (1⁄20 in.) in size, having 8 to 10 pairs of legs and branched antennae
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- pictural — a picture
- pirarucu — the arapaima.
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- plumular — relating to the plumule of a plant
- plurally — as a plural; in a plural sense.
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pourable — able to be poured
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
- prepupal — of the period between the larval and pupal stages
- prevalue — to value beforehand
- proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- prunella — a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.
- prussian — of or relating to Prussia or its inhabitants.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- puerpera — a woman who has recently given birth to a child.