8-letter words containing e, u, l, o
- overfull — excessively full: The auditorium was overfull.
- overhaul — to make necessary repairs on; restore to serviceable condition: My car was overhauled by an expert mechanic.
- overloud — too loud
- overlush — excessively lush
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- overrule — to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person): The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
- oversoul — (especially in transcendentalism) a supreme reality or mind; the spiritual unity of all being.
- owerloup — an encroachment
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- papulose — having papules
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- petalous — having petals.
- pleuston — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- plughole — drainage hole in sink or bath
- plus-one — a person who accompanies an invited person to a social function
- pluviose — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the fifth month of the year, extending from January 20 to February 18.
- polluted — made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted: swimming in polluted waters.
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- populace — the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
- populate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- postlude — a concluding piece or movement.
- postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- poultice — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- pourable — able to be poured
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- preludio — a musical prelude
- premould — to mould in advance
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- prologue — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- promulge — to promulgate.
- pullover — Also called slipover. a garment, especially a sweater, that must be drawn over the head to be put on.
- quotable — able to be quoted or easily quoted, as by reason of effectiveness, succinctness, or the like: the most quotable book of the season.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- recolour — to give a new colour to
- recouple — to couple (two people or things) again; reunite
- redouble — to double; make twice as great: to redouble one's efforts.
- reel out — to unwind from a reel
- replough — to plough again
- resolute — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- revolute — rolled backward or downward; rolled backward at the tip or margin, as a leaf.
- rivulose — (of plants) having irregular lines
- roseslug — any of various types of pest that feed on roses
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- roughleg — any of several kinds of large hawk with feathered legs
- rouleaux — a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.
- roulette — a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the center a revolving, dishlike device (roulette wheel) into which a small ball is spun to come to rest finally in one of the 37 or 38 compartments, indicating the winning number and its characteristics, as odd or even, red or black, and between 1 and 18 or 19 and 36.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- roundlet — a small circle or circular object.
- rugulose — finely rugose; having many small wrinkles.