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.