8-letter words containing o, p, e, i
- mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nepionic — of or relating to the juvenile period in the life cycle of an organism
- nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- nepotist — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- occupier — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- oedipean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Oedipus or the Oedipus complex.
- oilpaper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
- opalized — made into an opal
- open die — a die of flat, concave, or hollow V shape that only minimally restricts lateral flow.
- open pit — An open pit is a mine where the coal, metal, or minerals are near the surface and underground passages are not needed.
- open-air — existing in, taking place in, or characteristic of the open air; outdoor: The orchestra gave three open-air concerts last summer.
- open-pit — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
- openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
- openings — Plural form of opening.
- openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opificer — someone who makes something; a craftsman
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- opsonize — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.
- optimate — a Roman aristocrat
- optimise — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimize — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- optionee — a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
- opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overripe — too ripe; more than ripe: overripe tomatoes.
- overskip — to skip over
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- overspin — topspin.
- overtrip — to tread lightly over
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- patootie — buttocks; bottom
- pavonine — of or like a peacock.