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8-letter words containing o, p, t, e

  • keep out — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • la porte — a city in NW Indiana.
  • lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
  • lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
  • lepidote — covered with scurfy scales or scaly spots.
  • leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
  • leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
  • leypoldt — Frederick, 1835–84, U.S. editor and publisher, born in Germany.
  • linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
  • lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
  • lipocyte — fat cell.
  • lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
  • logotype — Also called logo. a single piece of type bearing two or more uncombined letters, a syllable, or a word.
  • mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
  • metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • metopism — a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persists
  • metopryl — a colourless liquid, C4H10O, that is related to ether and was formerly used as an anaesthetic
  • milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
  • monotype — the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
  • nectopod — (in certain mollusks) an appendage modified for swimming.
  • neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
  • neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
  • 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.
  • netphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
  • nonempty — (of a set, group, collection, etc.) containing at least one element.
  • nonuplet — One of a group of nine, especially such a multiple birth.
  • notepads — Plural form of notepad.
  • obtemper — to comply (with)
  • occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
  • octopole — (physics) A multipole configuration with eight equal charges arranged in a circular pattern.
  • octuples — Plural form of octuple.
  • octuplet — a group, series, or combination of eight related items.
  • octuplex — relating to a form of telegraphy in which eight communications can be sent along one wire at the same time
  • omoplate — the shoulder blade
  • one-spot — the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
  • one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
  • one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
  • open cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • open out — lead to wider area
  • 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 set — a set which is not a closed set
  • open-cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • 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.
  • open-top — An open-top bus has no roof, so that the people sitting on the top level can see or be seen more easily. An open-top car has no roof or has a roof that can be removed.
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openstep — (operating system)   An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
  • operants — Plural form of operant.
  • operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
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