8-letter words containing o, p
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- bookshop — A bookshop is a shop where books are sold.
- booze up — any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
- booze-up — In Britain, a booze-up is a party or other social gathering where people drink a lot of alcohol.
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
- boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- box plot — a graphic representation of a distribution by a rectangle, the ends of which mark the maximum and minimum values, and in which the median and first and third quartiles are marked by lines parallel to the ends.
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
- bullpout — a type of fish
- bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- c-prolog — (language, Prolog) An implementation of Prolog in C, developed by F. Pereira <[email protected]> et al in July 1982. It had no garbage collection. It is not in the public domain.
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- calliope — a steam organ
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calpolli — A subdivision of an altepetl; a
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- cape cod — a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capicola — A traditional Neapolitan-Italian cold cut made from pork shoulder or neck and dry-cured whole.
- capitano — a captain or chief
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponata — (in Sicilian cookery) a dish of fried seasoned aubergine and other vegetables, served as an appetizer
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground