8-letter words containing a, t, o, p
- poll tax — a capitation tax, the payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
- pop star — a famous singer or musician who performs pop music
- populate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portaloo — a portable toilet
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portlast — the gunnel of a ship
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- post oak — any of several American oaks, especially Quercus stellata, the wood of which is used for posts.
- post-bag — mailbag.
- post-war — following a major conflict
- postages — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- postanal — of, pertaining to, involving, or near the anus.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postcava — See under vena cava.
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- postical — (of the position of plant parts) behind another part; posterior
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postnati — those born after a particular event, esp in Scotland after the union with England or in the US after the Declaration of Independence
- postoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- postpaid — envelope, card: prepaid
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potassic — of, relating to, or containing potassium.
- potation — the act of drinking.
- potatoes — Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
- potatory — of, relating to, or given to drinking.
- potentia — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.
- potestas — the authority of a paterfamilias over all members of his family and household.
- potidaea — a city on the Chalcidice Peninsula, whose revolt against Athens in 432 b.c. was one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- pottable — (of a snooker ball) able to be potted
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.