8-Letter Words Containing: P,E,R,C,E,S

• a passage selected from a larger work

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

• a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

• furnish with a preface or introduction

• a chief officer or chief magistrate

• deliver a sermon

• speak, plead, or argue in favor of

• 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

• a person situated on a perch

• a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists