8-letter words containing a, p, o, c, l
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- 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.
- 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.
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- 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
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- populace — the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
- postical — (of the position of plant parts) behind another part; posterior
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- protocal — (spelling) It's spelled "protocol".
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- salpicon — a mixture of chopped fish, meat, or vegetables in a sauce, used as fillings for croquettes, pastries, etc
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
- tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- wolfpack — A family or other group of wild wolves.
- woolpack — a coarse fabric, usually of jute, in which raw wool is packed for transport.
- xylocarp — a fruit, such as a coconut, having a hard woody pericarp