8-letter words containing o, p
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- capuccio — a capuche
- car pool — A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
- car port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
- car-pool — Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype
- cesspool — A cesspool is the same as a cesspit.
- champion — A champion is someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight.
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- chicopee — city in SW Mass., on the Connecticut River: pop. 55,000
- chilopod — any arthropod of the class Chilopoda, which includes the centipedes
- chip box — chad box
- chip log — a log for determining a vessel's speed, consisting of a wooden chip tossed overboard at the end of a line that is marked off in lengths of 47 feet 3 inches; the speed is calculated by counting the number of such intervals that pass overboard in a 28-second interval
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- chomping — Present participle of chomp.
- chop off — To chop off something such as a part of someone's body means to cut it off.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppers — teeth
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- choppily — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chopping — to cut or sever with a quick, heavy blow or a series of blows, using an ax, hatchet, etc. (often followed by down, off, etc.): to chop down a tree.
- cioppino — an Italian rich fish stew
- clifftop — A clifftop is the area of land around the top of a cliff.
- clip-ons — sunglasses designed to be clipped on to a person's spectacles
- clip-out — intended to be clipped out, as from a newspaper: a clip-out coupon.
- clock up — If you clock up a large number or total of things, you reach that number or total.