8-letter words containing o, c, a, r
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outcharm — to exceed in charming
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outmarch — to march faster or farther than.
- outraced — Simple past tense and past participle of outrace.
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outreach — to reach beyond; exceed: The demand has outreached our supply.
- overacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overact.
- overarch — to span with or like an arch: A new bridge overarches the river.
- overcall — Cards. a bid higher than the previous bid.
- overcame — simple past tense of overcome.
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- overcram — (transitive) To cram too full; to overstuff.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overrack — to strain too much
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parcours — parcourse.
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- parochin — a parish
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
- piscator — fisherman.
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- 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.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- protocal — (spelling) It's spelled "protocol".
- protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- q factor — See Q (def 6).
- q-factor — See Q (def 6).
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- r factor — a genetic component of some bacteria that provides resistance to antibiotics and can be transferred from one bacterium to another by conjugation.
- racahout — a substance similar to chocolate prepared as either a food or drink and made from acorns and cocoa
- raccoons — Plural form of raccoon.
- race off — to entice (a person) away with a view to seduction
- racegoer — One who attends horse races.