8-letter words containing o, r, e, d
- overidle — too idle
- overkind — too kind
- overlade — to overload (usually used in past participle overladen): a table overladen with rich food.
- overlaid — simple past tense of overlie.
- overland — by land; on terrain: to travel overland rather than by sea.
- overlard — to cover with lard
- overlend — to lend more money than is economical
- overlewd — too lewd
- overlied — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overload — to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- overlord — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overloud — too loud
- overmild — too mild
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overread — to read over or reread
- override — to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule: to override one's advisers.
- overrode — to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule: to override one's advisers.
- overrude — very rude
- overseed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- overside — over the side, as of a ship.
- oversold — simple past tense and past participle of oversell.
- oversuds — to produce too much lather
- overused — to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
- overwide — too wide
- overwind — to wind beyond the proper limit; wind too far: He must have overwound his watch.
- overword — a word that is repeated, as a refrain in a song.
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- oxidizer — oxidant.
- oystered — veneered with matched flitches having a figure of concentric rings.
- pardoner — a person who pardons.
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parroted — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
- pedro ii — (Dom Pedro II) 1825–91, emperor of Brazil 1831–89.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- perdendo — (of a piece of music) getting gradually quieter and dying away
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- periodid — kind of iodide
- peroxide — Chemistry. hydrogen peroxide, H 2 O 2 or H–O–O–H. a compound containing the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide, as sodium peroxide, Na 2 O 2 , or dimethyl peroxide, C 3 H 6 O 2 . the oxide of an element that contains an unusually large amount of oxygen.
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- podomere — any segment of a limb of an arthropod.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- pondered — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- ponderer — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- porridge — a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.