8-letter words containing a, l, o, p
- opalized — made into an opal
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- openable — capable of being opened.
- operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- 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.
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overleap — to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
- overplan — to plan excessively
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- palazzos — women's pants with wide legs that flare broadly at the ankle
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- paliform — resembling a stake
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palladio — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1508–80, Italian architect famous for his widely translated Four Books of Architecture, 1570.
- palm off — the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- palm oil — a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
- 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.
- palomino — a horse with a golden coat, a white mane and tail, and often white markings on the face and legs, developed chiefly in the southwestern U.S.
- palpator — a type of beetle with long maxillary appendages
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- pamplona — a city in N Spain.
- pan loaf — a loaf of bread with a light crust all the way round
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- pantonal — marked by or using pantonality.
- paolozzi — Sir Eduardo (Luigi). 1924–2005, British sculptor and designer, noted esp for his semiabstract metal figures
- papillon — one of a breed of toy spaniels having a long, silky coat and large, erect ears held so that they resemble the wings of a butterfly.
- papulose — having papules
- parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabole — a simile
- parafoil — a structure, usually made of a strong yet light fabric, having a shape similar to that of an airplane wing, and used as a kite or a parachute.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.