8-letter words containing a, p, o, d
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- preradio — before the invention of radio
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- raindrop — a drop of rain.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- re-adopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- road map — a map designed for motorists, showing the principal cities and towns of a state or area, the chief roads, usually tourist attractions and places of historical interest, and the mileage from one place to another.
- sandsoap — a gritty general-purpose soap
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- satinpod — either of two European plants belonging to the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family, L. annua or L. rediviva, cultivated for their shiny flowers and large, round, flat, satiny pods.
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- soap pad — a small pad, usually of steel wool, containing a strong soap and used especially to scour pots and pans.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- soapland — a Japanese bathhouse and brothel
- soapsuds — suds made with water and soap.
- soda pop — a carbonated, flavored, and sweetened soft drink.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- teardrop — a tear or something suggesting a tear: A single teardrop rolled down her face.
- tetrapod — any vertebrate having four limbs or, as in the snake and whale, having had four-limbed ancestors.
- top hand — a person who is highly skilled in some activity, esp a ranch worker
- touchpad — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by sliding the finger along a touch-sensitive surface: used chiefly in laptop computers.
- trapdoor — a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
- tripodal — pertaining to or having the form of a tripod.
- unsoaped — unwashed; not rubbed with soap
- walloped — to beat soundly; thrash.
- weaponed — Armed with a weapon.