8-letter words containing p, r
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainpan — the skull
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- brew pub — a bar serving beer brewed at a small microbrewery on the premises.
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- brush up — If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it.
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- burp gun — an automatic pistol or submachine gun
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- c-prolog — (language, Prolog) An implementation of Prolog in C, developed by F. Pereira <[email protected]> et al in July 1982. It had no garbage collection. It is not in the public domain.
- calcspar — calcite
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- camp car — a railroad car used as a dormitory for construction and maintenance workers.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- cape ray — a promontory in SW Newfoundland, Canada
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- capmaker — a person who makes caps
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.