8-letter words containing d, r, o, s, p
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- portside — situated on the port side
- 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.
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- proceeds — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
- prodnose — an inquisitive person
- prodomos — an open vestibule, as a pronaos.
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- proposed — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- prosodic — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proudish — rather proud
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- reedstop — an organ stop that is made up of or that controls a rank of reed pipes
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- splendor — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- sundrops — any of various plants of the genus Oenothera, of the evening primrose family, having flowers that bloom during the day.
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- wordship — Lb rare The state, condition, or status of a word.