8-letter words containing d, o, r, p, a
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- mopboard — baseboard (def 1).
- myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
- namedrop — Alternative spelling of name-drop.
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- paradrop — airdrop.
- paranoid — of, like, or suffering from paranoia.
- pardoner — a person who pardons.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- 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
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- 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
- 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.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- preradio — before the invention of radio
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- raindrop — a drop of rain.