8-letter words containing a, l, o, p, t
- omoplate — the shoulder blade
- oppilant — blocking, hindering, or obstructing
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- optional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- palpator — a type of beetle with long maxillary appendages
- pantofle — a slipper.
- pantonal — marked by or using pantonality.
- pastoral — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastorly — of or relating to a pastor
- patronal — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patulous — open; gaping; expanded.
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- pentanol — any of various colourless, odoriferous isomers of C5H11OH
- petaflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of 1015 floating-point operations a second
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- petalous — having petals.
- petiolar — of, relating to, or growing from a petiole.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pilotage — the process of directing the movement of a ship or aircraft by visual or electronic observations of recognizable landmarks.
- pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
- plan out — organize in detail
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platino- — of, relating to, containing, or resembling platinum
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- platypod — Also, platypodous [pluh-tip-uh-duh s] /pləˈtɪp ə dəs/ (Show IPA). having a broad foot, as certain gastropod mollusks.
- play out — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- plottage — the area within or comprising a plot of land.
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- polestar — Polaris.
- politian — (Angelo Poliziano) 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.
- poll tax — a capitation tax, the payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- populate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- portaloo — a portable toilet