8-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a, t
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- pretoria — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- priorate — the office, rank, or term of office of a prior.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- re-adopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- recaptor — someone who recaptures something that had been taken
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- teardrop — a tear or something suggesting a tear: A single teardrop rolled down her face.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- tetrapod — any vertebrate having four limbs or, as in the snake and whale, having had four-limbed ancestors.
- to spare — more than is required
- top gear — the highest gear in a motor vehicle
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- trappose — relating to traprock
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- waterpot — A pot or jug for holding water.
- waterpox — chickenpox