8-letter words containing o, a, r, s
- postoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- prazosin — a white crystalline substance, C 1 9 H 2 1 N 5 O 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- proposal — the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- prosaist — a person who writes prose.
- proseman — a writer of prose
- prosomal — relating to a prosoma
- prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protasis — the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if. Compare apodosis.
- protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- protista — a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
- psoralea — any plant of the tropical and subtropical leguminous genus Psoralea, having curly leaves, white or purple flowers, and short one-seeded pods
- 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.
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- pyrostat — a thermostat for high temperatures.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- raccoons — Plural form of raccoon.
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- radisson — Pierre Esprit [es-pree] /ɛs pri/ (Show IPA), 1636?–1710? French fur trader and explorer in Canada.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rapports — relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic relation: a teacher trying to establish close rapport with students.
- rasorial — given to scratching the ground for food, as chickens; gallinaceous.
- ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reabsorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- reassort — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- releasor — a person who releases an estate to someone else
- reseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- responsa — the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.
- restoral — restoration.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.