8-Letter Words Containing: _,E,E,P,R,S,T

• a passage selected from a larger work

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• a swing used by circus acrobats

• glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot

• something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

• an artful or simulated semblance

• exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time

• a chief officer or chief magistrate

• being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• precisely accurate or exact

• make perfect or complete

• rule of personal conduct

• a doctrine that is taught