8-letter words containing a, p, o, t, h
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- 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.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- slapshot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- snapshot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
- spathose — spathaceous.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tea shop — a tearoom.
- thiotepa — a drug, C6H12N3PS, used in chemotherapy to destroy cancer or neoplastic cells
- top hand — a person who is highly skilled in some activity, esp a ranch worker
- topkhana — a building where artillery, ammunition, etc., are made, repaired, and stored.
- 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.
- wahpeton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- zoopathy — the science of animal diseases