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8-letter words containing o, t, s

  • postpone — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
  • postpose — to place (a grammatical form) after a related grammatical form: The adverb “out” in “put out the light” is postposed in “put the light out.”.
  • postpunk — of or related to a style of music that followed punk rock
  • postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
  • postrace — designating the period after a race
  • postriot — of or relating to the period after a riot
  • postshow — of or relating to the period after a show, occurring after a show
  • postsync — postsynchronization
  • postteen — a person older than a teenager; young adult
  • posttest — an achievement test administered after a course of instruction.
  • postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
  • pot shot — a shot fired at game merely for food, with little regard to skill or the rules of sport.
  • potassic — of, relating to, or containing potassium.
  • potatoes — Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
  • potestas — the authority of a paterfamilias over all members of his family and household.
  • pothooks — a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.
  • pothouse — (formerly) a small tavern or pub
  • potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
  • potstone — a kind of soapstone, sometimes used for making pots and other household utensils.
  • powerset — (mathematics)   The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
  • prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • prestore — Computers. to fix an opening value for (the address of an operand or of a cycle index).
  • prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
  • prosaist — a person who writes prose.
  • prospect — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
  • prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
  • prostoon — (in classical architecture) a portico.
  • prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
  • 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.
  • proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • protense — extension in time
  • proteose — any of a class of soluble compounds derived from proteins by the action of the gastric juices, pancreatic juices, etc.
  • protista — a taxonomic kingdom comprising the protists.
  • protists — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
  • proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
  • psilotic — of or relating to a disease of the small intestine
  • ptilosis — the falling out of eye lashes
  • 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.
  • question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • quite so — indeed, precisely
  • 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.
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