8-letter words containing a, s, p, o
- jogpants — a pair of trousers worn for jogging
- kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kampongs — Plural form of kampong.
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- koopmans — Tjalling Charles [chah-ling] /ˈtʃɑ lɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1910–85, U.S. economist, born in the Netherlands: Nobel Prize 1975.
- kopiykas — Plural form of kopiyka.
- lampions — Plural form of lampion.
- lampoons — Plural form of lampoon.
- lamppost — a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- mariposa — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
- marsport — a spoilsport
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mesopeak — the level of maximum temperature in the mesophere, at an altitude of about 30 miles (48 km).
- momparas — Plural form of mompara.
- myospasm — A sudden, involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open sea — the main body of a sea or ocean, especially the part that is outside territorial waters and not enclosed, or partially enclosed, by land.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- out-pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- overpass — a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- paduasoy — a slightly corded, strong, rich, silk fabric.
- 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.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism