8-letter words containing a, p, o, m
- diplomas — Plural form of diploma.
- diplomat — a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- doxapram — a drug used to stimulate the respiratory process
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- episomal — (biology) Pertaining to an episome or DNA fragments not contained within a chromosome.
- fog lamp — a powerful light for use in foggy conditions, usually positioned low down on the front or rear of a road vehicle
- frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hemiopia — hemianopsia.
- hepatoma — a tumor of the liver.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- hoop-man — a basketball player.
- hypogamy — Act or practice of seeking a spouse of lower socioeconomic status, or caste status than oneself.
- hyposmia — A reduced ability to smell and to detect odours.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- jamproof — built so as to prevent jamming: a jamproof copying machine.
- japonism — something typically Japanese.
- kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kampongs — Plural form of kampong.
- koopmans — Tjalling Charles [chah-ling] /ˈtʃɑ lɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1910–85, U.S. economist, born in the Netherlands: Nobel Prize 1975.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- lamp oil — kerosene.
- lampions — Plural form of lampion.
- lampoons — Plural form of lampoon.
- lamppost — a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- lipomata — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lymphoma — a tumor arising from any of the cellular elements of lymph nodes.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
- malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- map onto — to fit in with or correspond to
- maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
- mariposa — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- marsport — a spoilsport
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- memo pad — memorandum pad