8-letter words containing y, e, r
- pratyeka — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.
- preapply — to apply beforehand
- precycle — to make purchasing decisions that will ultimately delay, reduce, or eliminate the need to recycle or dispose of waste: One way you can precycle is by buying food in bulk, so there's less packaging to throw away.
- preppily — in a preppy manner
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- prettify — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- prettily — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- priggery — the conduct or character of a prig.
- princely — greatly liberal; lavish; magnificent: a princely entertainment.
- printery — (formerly) an establishment for typographic printing.
- propenyl — containing the propenyl group.
- properly — adapted or appropriate to the purpose or circumstances; fit; suitable: the proper time to plant strawberries.
- property — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
- prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- prophesy — to foretell or predict.
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- przemysl — a city in SE Poland: occupied by the Russians 1915.
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pseudery — pretentious talk
- pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- puppetry — the art of making puppets or presenting puppet shows.
- purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- pyrazole — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and two double bonds in the ring.
- pyrenean — of or relating to the Pyrenees or their inhabitants
- pyrenees — mountains between France and Spain
- pyrenoid — a spherical protein structure found within chloroplasts of certain algae and hornworts.
- pyridine — a colorless, flammable, liquid organic base, C 5 H 5 N, having a disagreeable odor, usually obtained from coal or synthesized from acetaldehyde and ammonia: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
- pyritize — to convert into pyrites
- pyrolize — to subject (a substance) to pyrolysis.
- pyrolyse — to subject (a substance) to pyrolysis.
- pyronine — a xanthine dye used for detecting the presence of RNA.
- pyrosome — a member of a genus, Pyrosoma, of colonial tunicates found in tropical open waters, the sole genus of the order Pyrosomida, which consists of brightly phosphorescent, translucent individuals united into a hollow tube closed at one end
- pyroxene — any of a very common group of minerals of many varieties, silicates of magnesium, iron, calcium, and other elements, occurring as important constituents of many kinds of rocks, especially basic igneous rocks.
- pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.
- queerity — queerness or peculiarity
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- quizzery — mockery; derision
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- racketry — noise and commotion
- radetzky — Count Joseph [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.
- rafferty — confused; disorganized.
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
- rateably — capable of being rated or appraised.