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8-letter words containing p, a, o, s, e

  • pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
  • poaceous — belonging to the Poaceae, an alternate name for the plant family Gramineae.
  • polarise — to cause polarization in.
  • polestar — Polaris.
  • poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
  • postages — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
  • postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
  • postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
  • postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
  • postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
  • postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
  • postrace — designating the period after a race
  • 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.
  • pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
  • prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
  • prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
  • proseman — a writer of prose
  • prostate — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
  • protease — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic degradation of proteins or polypeptides to smaller amino acid polymers.
  • psoralea — any plant of the tropical and subtropical leguminous genus Psoralea, having curly leaves, white or purple flowers, and short one-seeded pods
  • psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
  • pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
  • responsa — the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.
  • rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
  • saponite — a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
  • saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
  • sapropel — mud consisting chiefly of decomposed organic matter formed at the bottom of a stagnant sea or lake.
  • sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
  • saucepot — a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
  • scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
  • sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
  • sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
  • snow pea — a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum macrocarpon, having thin, flat, edible pods that are used in cookery.
  • soapless — a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
  • soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
  • spathose — spathaceous.
  • speak to — talk or converse with
  • speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
  • spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
  • spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
  • sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
  • spousage — marriage
  • stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
  • stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
  • 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.
  • taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
  • tea shop — a tearoom.
  • teaspoon — a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
  • to spare — more than is required
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