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8-letter words containing a, p, r, o, c

  • coplanar — lying in the same plane
  • copperah — copra.
  • copperas — ferrous sulfate
  • copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
  • coprosma — any shrub of the Australasian rubiaceous genus Coprosma: sometimes planted for ornament
  • copyread — to subedit
  • corporal — A corporal is a non-commissioned officer in the army or United States Marines.
  • corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
  • crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
  • crampons — Plural form of crampon.
  • crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
  • crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
  • cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
  • croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
  • cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
  • dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
  • dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
  • 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).
  • exocarps — Plural form of exocarp.
  • geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
  • hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
  • hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
  • impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
  • maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
  • megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
  • mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
  • mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
  • microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
  • microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
  • micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
  • monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
  • operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
  • opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • outcaper — to exceed in capering
  • overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
  • parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
  • parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
  • parcours — parcourse.
  • parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
  • parochin — a parish
  • pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
  • pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
  • picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
  • picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
  • picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
  • piscator — fisherman.
  • pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
  • poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
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