8-letter words containing a, p, o
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overheap — to supply too much
- overleap — to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overpark — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- overpart — to give (an actor) too difficult a role
- overpass — a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
- overplan — to plan excessively
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- oxazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 1 5 H 1 1 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pacation — the act of making peace
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pacifico — a peaceful person.
- pack off — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- pad foot — Furniture. any of various kinds of feet to a cabriole leg, as club, slipper, trifid, or web, having the form of a flattened extension of its lines.
- paduasoy — a slightly corded, strong, rich, silk fabric.
- pagandom — the part of the world inhabited by pagans.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pahoehoe — basaltic lava having a smooth or billowy surface.
- paignton — a town and resort in SW England, in Devon: administratively part of Torbay since 1968
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- paintpot — a container for holding paint while it is being applied
- pair off — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- pair-oar — a racing shell propelled by two persons, each with one oar.
- pak-choi — bok choy.
- palazzos — women's pants with wide legs that flare broadly at the ankle
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- paliform — resembling a stake
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palladio — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1508–80, Italian architect famous for his widely translated Four Books of Architecture, 1570.
- palm off — the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- palm oil — a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.
- palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.