8-letter words containing a, r, n, o
- parochin — a parish
- paronymy — a play on words
- parvanov — Georgi. born 1957, Bulgarian politician: president of Bulgaria (2000–2012)
- patentor — a person or official agency that grants patents.
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- patronal — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronne — a woman who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- personae — a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- pfortran — Parallel Fortran
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- pornomag — pornographic magazine
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- prazosin — a white crystalline substance, C 1 9 H 2 1 N 5 O 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prolamin — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- pronator — Anatomy, Zoology. any of several muscles that permit pronation of the hand, forelimb, or foot.
- pronotal — relating to an insect's pronotum
- propanil — a postemergence herbicide, C 9 H 9 Cl 2 NO, used for weed control on potatoes, rice, and other crop plants.
- propanol — a colourless alcohol
- proppant — (in oil extraction) a material used in hydraulic rock fracturing in order to keep the fissures open and thereby aid extraction
- proseman — a writer of prose
- proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
- psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- quarnero — Gulf of, an arm of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- raccoons — Plural form of raccoon.
- radioman — a person who operates a radio.
- radisson — Pierre Esprit [es-pree] /ɛs pri/ (Show IPA), 1636?–1710? French fur trader and explorer in Canada.
- ragnarok — the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with the evil powers.