8-letter words containing o, n, p
- contempt — If you have contempt for someone or something, you have no respect for them or think that they are unimportant.
- coopting — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- cooption — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- copperon — cupferron.
- coprince — a fellow prince
- cornpipe — a musical instrument made from a stalk of corn
- cornpone — cornbread, esp a plain type made with water
- corpsing — Present participle of corpse.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corpsmen — U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- count up — add, total
- couperin — François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- coupling — A coupling is a device which is used to join two vehicles or pieces of equipment together.
- couponer — a person who seeks out or saves discount coupons, as for buying grocery items.
- cow pony — a horse used by cowboys when herding
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- crompton — Richmal, full name Richmal Crompton Lamburn. 1890–1969, British children's author, best known for her Just William stories
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- cropping — the trimming or masking of unwanted edges or areas of a negative or print
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- de plano — without argument.
- deponent — (of a verb, esp in Latin) having the inflectional endings of a passive verb but the meaning of an active verb
- deposing — Present participle of depose.
- desponds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despond.
- dew pond — a shallow pond, usually man-made, that is kept supplied with water by dew and condensation
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- dip into — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- diphonia — diplophonia.
- dipnoous — having both lungs and gills for breathing
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipthong — Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- dolphins — Plural form of dolphin.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- downpour — a heavy, drenching rain.
- downspin — spin (def 19).