8-letter words containing d, o, p, a
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- parroted — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- passcode — password (def 2).
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pat-down — an act or instance of passing the hands over the body of a clothed person to detect concealed weapons, drugs, etc.; frisking.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pauropod — a member of the Pauropoda, a class of minute myriapods less than 2 mm (1⁄20 in.) in size, having 8 to 10 pairs of legs and branched antennae
- pavlodar — a city in NE Kazakhstan.
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- 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)
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- phalloid — having the form of or bearing a similarity to a penis
- pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- platypod — Also, platypodous [pluh-tip-uh-duh s] /pləˈtɪp ə dəs/ (Show IPA). having a broad foot, as certain gastropod mollusks.
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- playdown — a play-off.
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- podalgia — pain in the foot.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- polaroid — instant photograph
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- poloidal — relating to a type of magnetic field
- 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
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- pop band — a band, consisting of guitars, drums and sometimes other instruments, which plays pop music
- poppadom — A poppadom is a very thin circular crisp made from a mixture of flour and water, which is fried in oil. Poppadoms are usually eaten with Indian food.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- 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.
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- postpaid — envelope, card: prepaid
- potidaea — a city on the Chalcidice Peninsula, whose revolt against Athens in 432 b.c. was one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War.
- poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.