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8-letter words that end in re

  • moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
  • nanoacre — (unit, humour)   /nan'oh-ay"kr/ A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI integrated circuit. VLSI nanoacres have costs in the same range as real acres once one allows for design and fabrication setup costs.
  • nanopore — A pore, of nanometre dimensions, in a membrane.
  • nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
  • nanterre — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
  • needfire — spontaneous combustion.
  • newswire — a service transmitted especially by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires.
  • nonglare — (of a colour, paint, or surface) dull rather than shiny
  • normcore — a fashion style or way of dressing characterized by ordinary, plain clothing with no designer names, often a reaction against trendy fashion.
  • ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
  • odometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of odometer.
  • offshore — off or away from the shore: They pushed the boat offshore.
  • omnivore — someone or something that is omnivorous.
  • oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
  • ossature — the structure or framework supporting a building or sculpture.
  • outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
  • outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
  • outscore — the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
  • outsnore — to outdo in snoring
  • outstare — to outdo in staring; stare down.
  • ovenware — heat-resistant dishes of glass, pottery, etc., for baking and serving food; bakeware.
  • overbore — simple past tense of overbear.
  • overcure — to cure for longer than necessary
  • overdare — to dare too much
  • overmore — constituting or forming a large number; numerous: many people.
  • oversure — too sure (so as to be presumptuous)
  • overtire — to make or become too tired
  • overture — an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement, etc.; a formal or informal proposal or offer: overtures of peace; a shy man who rarely made overtures of friendship.
  • overwire — a spiral-bound book in which the spiral is covered by the spine.
  • overwore — simple past tense of overwear.
  • painture — the art or act of painting
  • parterre — Also called parquet circle. the rear section of seats, and sometimes also the side sections, of the main floor of a theater, concert hall, or opera house.
  • passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
  • pedicure — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
  • perspire — to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.
  • pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
  • pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • podomere — any segment of a limb of an arthropod.
  • poechore — a dry region
  • poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
  • polypore — a woody pore fungus, Laetiporus (Polyporus) sulphureus, that forms large, brightly colored, shelflike growths on old logs and tree stumps.
  • 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.
  • postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
  • premiere — movie: first showing
  • prescore — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • prestore — Computers. to fix an opening value for (the address of an operand or of a cycle index).
  • puncture — the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object.
  • quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
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