8-letter words containing a, p, o
- footpath — a path for people going on foot.
- forepart — the first, front, or early part.
- forepast — bygone
- forepaws — Plural form of forepaw.
- forepeak — the extreme forward part of the interior of a hull (opposed to afterpeak).
- foreplan — to plan in advance
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- forspeak — to bewitch
- fourplay — Quad play.
- frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
- frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
- galapago — the Galapagos giant tortoise
- gallipot — a type of turpentine exuded on the stems of certain species of pine.
- galloped — Simple past tense and past participle of gallop.
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gallopin — (obsolete) An underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.
- galopade — a lively round dance in duple time.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- gatepost — the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
- gazpacho — a soup made of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, oil, and vinegar, and served cold.
- 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.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geophagy — the practice of eating earthy matter, especially clay or chalk, as in famine-stricken areas.
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- gigaflop — gigaflops
- glooscap — (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- goalpost — a post supporting a crossbar and, with it, forming the goal on a playing field in certain sports, as football.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- gospodar — a hospodar; a master
- grandpop — (US, informal) grandfather.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- haiphong — a seaport in N Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin.
- halophil — Halobacterium.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hanepoot — a variety of muscat grape used as a dessert fruit and in making wine
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- haplopia — normal vision (opposed to diplopia).
- haplosis — the production of haploid chromosome groups during meiosis.
- happoshu — a Japanese drink, similar to beer
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- harpoons — Plural form of harpoon.
- hat shop — a shop that sell hats
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail