8-letter words containing a, p, g, o
- pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- plottage — the area within or comprising a plot of land.
- plumbago — graphite.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- podalgia — pain in the foot.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- polygala — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygamy — the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. Compare bigamy (def 1), monogamy (def 1).
- poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
- pornomag — pornographic magazine
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- post-bag — mailbag.
- postages — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prograph — (language) A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- ps-algol — Persistent ALGOL. ca 1981, released 1985. A derivative of S-ALGOL. Database capability derived from the longevity of data. "The PS- Algol Reference Manual", TR PPR-12-85, CS Dept, U Glasgow 1985. IBM PC version available from CS Dept, U Strathclyde, Glasgow.
- pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
- saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spousage — marriage
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- swagshop — a shop selling cheap goods
- top gear — the highest gear in a motor vehicle
- topalgia — pain restricted to a particular spot: a neurotic or hysterical symptom
- tragopan — any of several Asian pheasants of the genus Tragopan, having two fleshy, erectile horns on the head and wattles on the throat.
- vaporing — that gives forth vapor.
- whompage — (rare humorous slang) Whomping or whomping on; acts of whomping or whomping on, taken collectively.
- zampogna — an Italian bagpipe used in Christmas music
- zoophagy — the feeding on animals by other animals