8-letter words containing c, o, p, a
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- 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.
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pacifico — a peaceful person.
- pack off — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- pak-choi — bok choy.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- panoptic — permitting the viewing of all parts or elements: a panoptic stain used in microscopy; a panoptic aerial photograph of an enemy missile base.
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parcours — parcourse.
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- parochin — a parish
- passcode — password (def 2).
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- pea coat — A pea coat or a pea jacket is a short, double-breasted overcoat made of wool and worn especially by sailors.
- peacocky — of or resembling a peacock; ostentatious
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.
- pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- piscator — fisherman.
- platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- poaceous — belonging to the Poaceae, an alternate name for the plant family Gramineae.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- poematic — relating to or resembling poetry
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- populace — the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
- portance — bearing; behavior.