8-letter words containing o, p, t, e, l
- pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
- polluted — made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted: swimming in polluted waters.
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- polytene — denoting a type of giant-size chromosome consisting of many replicated genes in parallel, found esp in Drosophila larvae
- polyteny — the condition of being polytene
- polytype — a crystal occurring in more than one form
- poncelet — Jean Victor [zhahn veek-tawr] /ʒɑ̃ vikˈtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1788–1867, French mathematician.
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- populate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- portable — portability
- porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- postlude — a concluding piece or movement.
- postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
- potbelly — a distended or protuberant belly.
- potently — powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force.
- potholed — A potholed road has a lot of potholes in it.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- pottable — (of a snooker ball) able to be potted
- poultice — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- poyntell — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- sleepout — a place, such as an outbuilding or porch, used for sleeping away from the main building
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- spotless — free from any spot, stain, etc.; immaculately clean: a spotless kitchen.
- stopless — not having any stops, continuous
- tabletop — a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
- telecopy — a message or document sent by fax
- teleport — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.
- 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
- ternopol — a city in W Ukraine: formerly in Poland.
- the flop — the first three community cards dealt face-up in a round of any of several varieties of poker, including Texas hold 'em
- the loop — the main business and shopping district in downtown Chicago
- the plow — the constellation Ursa Major
- tholepin — thole1
- thropple — the windpipe or throat
- toe clip — a device attached to a bicycle pedal that grips the front part of the rider's shoe to keep the foot from slipping off the pedal.
- toeplate — a metal reinforcement of the part of the sole of a shoe or boot underneath the toes
- top-hole — first-rate.
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- topolect — the dialects of a specific area collectively, constituting a variety of a language.