8-letter words containing a, t, o, p
- stamp on — tread heavily on
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- starspot — a dark patch on the surface of a star
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
- swaption — A swaption is an over-the-counter option on a swap.
- tabletop — a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
- talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
- tank top — a close-fitting, low-cut top having shoulder straps and often made of lightweight, knitted fabric.
- tap bolt — a bolt for driving into a tapped hole in metal and that can be held in place without a nut.
- tap-root — a main root descending downward from the radicle and giving off small lateral roots.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- tarapoto — a city in N Peru.
- tarnopol — Ternopol.
- tea shop — a tearoom.
- teardrop — a tear or something suggesting a tear: A single teardrop rolled down her face.
- teaspoon — a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- tetrapod — any vertebrate having four limbs or, as in the snake and whale, having had four-limbed ancestors.
- thiotepa — a drug, C6H12N3PS, used in chemotherapy to destroy cancer or neoplastic cells
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- to spare — more than is required
- toeplate — a metal reinforcement of the part of the sole of a shoe or boot underneath the toes
- top gear — the highest gear in a motor vehicle
- top hand — a person who is highly skilled in some activity, esp a ranch worker
- topalgia — pain restricted to a particular spot: a neurotic or hysterical symptom
- topazine — like topaz
- topkhana — a building where artillery, ammunition, etc., are made, repaired, and stored.
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- touchpad — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by sliding the finger along a touch-sensitive surface: used chiefly in laptop computers.
- towplane — an aeroplane that tows gliders
- tragopan — any of several Asian pheasants of the genus Tragopan, having two fleshy, erectile horns on the head and wattles on the throat.
- trapdoor — a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
- trappose — relating to traprock
- traprock — trap3 .
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- tripodal — pertaining to or having the form of a tripod.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- tropaion — a tropaeum, especially in Greece.
- tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- troupial — any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- tupamaro — any of a group of Marxist urban guerrillas in Uruguay
- two pair — a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.