8-letter words containing a, p, o, n
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- capitano — a captain or chief
- caponata — (in Sicilian cookery) a dish of fried seasoned aubergine and other vegetables, served as an appetizer
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- champion — A champion is someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight.
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- compania — company.
- companie — Obsolete spelling of company.
- complain — to make an accusation; bring a formal charge
- conepati — hog-nosed skunk (def 2).
- conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- de plano — without argument.
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- diphonia — diplophonia.
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- 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.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- epanodos — a return to main theme after a digression
- european — geography
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- foreplan — to plan in advance
- gallopin — (obsolete) An underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- genipapo — A tropical American tree of the bedstraw family that yields useful timber. Its fruit has a jellylike pulp that is used for flavoring drinks and to make a black dye.