8-letter words containing p, a, b, o
- parabole — a simile
- passbook — a bankbook.
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- peat bog — a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
- peekaboo — Also called bo-peep. a game played by or with very young children, typically in which one covers the face or hides and then suddenly uncovers the face or reappears, calling “Peekaboo!”.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- perborax — sodium perborate.
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
- playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- plumbago — graphite.
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- pollable — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pop band — a band, consisting of guitars, drums and sometimes other instruments, which plays pop music
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
- post-bag — mailbag.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- pottable — (of a snooker ball) able to be potted
- pourable — able to be poured
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
- probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.
- prolabor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- provable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- provably — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- ropeable — ropable.
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- slab top — a top, as to a table, formed from a slab of marble or the like.
- soap-box — Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
- soapbark — a Chilean tree, Quillaja saponaria, of the rose family, having evergreen leaves and small, white flowers.
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
- tabletop — a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
- tap bolt — a bolt for driving into a tapped hole in metal and that can be held in place without a nut.