8-letter words containing a, c, s
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- orgasmic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- orgastic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- oscar ii — 1829–1907, king of Sweden 1872–1907; king of Norway 1872–1905.
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- oscitate — To gape; to yawn.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- osmotica — Plural form of osmoticum.
- ossianic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossian, the poetry attributed to him, or the rhythmic prose published by James Macpherson in 1762–63, purporting to be a translation from the Scottish Gaelic.
- ossicula — Plural form of ossiculum.
- ostracod — seed shrimp.
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- outcalls — Plural form of outcall.
- outcaste — (in India) a person who has left or been expelled from his or her caste.
- outcasts — Plural form of outcast.
- outclass — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- overacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overact.
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- oxidasic — relating to enzymes that catalyse oxidation
- pacifism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- packsack — a leather or canvas carrying bag, usually one that can be strapped over the shoulder and used to carry food and personal items when a person is traveling.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parcours — parcourse.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- pascal-m — ["Pascal-m: A Language for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems", S. Abramsky et al in Distributed Computing Systems, Y. Paker et al eds, Academic Press 1986, pp. 163-189].
- pascal-p — (language) The variant of Pascal used by the UCSD p-system environment. Pascal-P has extended string and array operations, random-access files and separate compilation. It uses P-code intermediate code and is available from Pecan.
- pascal-s — Simplified Pascal. June, 1975. A strict subset of Pascal, omits scalar types, subranges, sets, files, pointers, packed structures, 'with' and 'goto. Source for a complete Pascal-S compiler is in "Pascal-S: A Subset and Its Implementation", N. Wirth in Pascal - The Language and Its Implementation, by D.W. Barron, Wiley 1979.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- pastance — an activity that passes time; recreation
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathspec — pathname
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- piscator — fisherman.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- pittacus — c650–570 b.c, democratic statesman and reformer from Mytilene.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plastics — made of plastic.
- poaceous — belonging to the Poaceae, an alternate name for the plant family Gramineae.