8-letter words containing o, s, t, r, a
- oversalt — to put too much salt in
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parts of — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- passport — an official document issued by the government of a country to one of its citizens and, varying from country to country, authorizing travel to foreign countries and authenticating the bearer's identity, citizenship, right to protection while abroad, and right to reenter his or her native country.
- pastoral — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastorly — of or relating to a pastor
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
- patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- piscator — fisherman.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- polestar — Polaris.
- pop star — a famous singer or musician who performs pop music
- portlast — the gunnel of a ship
- post-war — following a major conflict
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- prosaist — a person who writes prose.
- prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protasis — the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if. Compare apodosis.
- protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
- protista — a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- pyrostat — a thermostat for high temperatures.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- rapports — relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic relation: a teacher trying to establish close rapport with students.
- ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- reassort — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- restoral — restoration.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- roadster — an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- rostrate — furnished with a rostrum.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.