8-letter words containing a, p, o
- backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
- bakeshop — Also called bakeshop [beyk-shop] /ˈbeɪkˌʃɒp/ (Show IPA). a baker's shop.
- barspoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- basophil — (of cells or cell contents) easily stained by basic dyes
- bean pot — a heavy, covered crockery or metal pot, suitable for the slow cooking of beans, stews, etc.
- beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
- beaucoup — a large amount, an abundance
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- biograph — a biographical summary
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- black op — Often, black ops. a secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement: Some national intelligence agencies use black ops to undermine enemy governments. The company even resorted to an industrial black op to steal secrets from its competitor.
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- blowlamp — A blowlamp is a device which produces a hot flame, and is used to heat metal or remove old paint.
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- calliope — a steam organ
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calpolli — A subdivision of an altepetl; a
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- 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.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- cape cod — a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capicola — A traditional Neapolitan-Italian cold cut made from pork shoulder or neck and dry-cured whole.
- capitano — a captain or chief
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- 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
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground