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8-letter words containing l, o, a, r

  • psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
  • pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
  • pyrazole — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and two double bonds in the ring.
  • rag bolt — barb bolt.
  • rag doll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
  • rag-doll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
  • railroad — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
  • ramulose — having many small branches.
  • randlord — a mining magnate during the 19th-century gold boom in Johannesburg
  • randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
  • randomly — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
  • rape oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
  • rasorial — given to scratching the ground for food, as chickens; gallinaceous.
  • rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
  • rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
  • realtone — a ringtone for a mobile phone that uses an original sound recording rather than an electronic tone
  • rectoral — of or relating to God's rule
  • regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
  • relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
  • releasor — a person who releases an estate to someone else
  • reloaded — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • reloader — a person or thing that reloads something such as cargo or ammunition
  • relocate — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
  • remolade — rémoulade.
  • reproval — the act of reproving.
  • restoral — restoration.
  • retailor — to make (clothing) suitable for a new person or purpose by changing the details
  • rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
  • rio azul — an archaeological site in the jungles of northern Guatemala, where a 1500-year-old painted Mayan tomb was discovered intact in 1984.
  • roadkill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
  • robocall — a telephone call placed to large numbers of people by a computerized device that automatically dials the telephone numbers and plays a recorded message: Many but not all robocalls are illegal.
  • rocaille — Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.
  • rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
  • rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
  • rockfall — an act or instance of the falling of rock, as in a cave-in or an avalanche.
  • rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
  • roleplay — to assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), especially in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction: Management trainees were given a chance to role-play labor negotiators.
  • roll bag — a small zippered duffel bag for carrying school supplies, sports gear, or the like.
  • roll bar — a heavy steel transverse bar in the form of an inverted U rising from the framework of an automobile to prevent its occupants from being crushed if the vehicle rolls over.
  • rollable — able to roll or be rolled
  • rollaway — designed to be rolled out of the way or out of sight when not in use: rollaway bed.
  • rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
  • rondavel — a circular often thatched building with a conical roof
  • rootball — a roughly spherical aggregate of roots and soil that is transplanted with a plant, especially a tree or shrub.
  • ropeable — ropable.
  • ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
  • rosalind — a female given name.
  • rosedale — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
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