8-letter words containing c, o, a, t, p
- cotopaxi — a volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the world's highest active volcano Height: 5896 m (19 344 ft)
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- footpace — walking pace.
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- occipita — Plural form of occiput.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
- octapody — (in poetic metre) a line, stanza, or piece of poetic writing that contains eight feet
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- pacation — the act of making peace
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- panoptic — permitting the viewing of all parts or elements: a panoptic stain used in microscopy; a panoptic aerial photograph of an enemy missile base.
- pea coat — A pea coat or a pea jacket is a short, double-breasted overcoat made of wool and worn especially by sailors.
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- piscator — fisherman.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- poematic — relating to or resembling poetry
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- 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.
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- postical — (of the position of plant parts) behind another part; posterior
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potassic — of, relating to, or containing potassium.
- 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.
- protocal — (spelling) It's spelled "protocol".
- protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- recaptor — someone who recaptures something that had been taken
- root cap — the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- saucepot — a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
- scotopia — vision in dim light (opposed to photopia).
- spiccato — (of violin music) performed with short, abrupt, rebounding motions of the bow.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America