8-letter words containing p, a, r, o
- comparer — One who, or that which, compares.
- compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
- comparsa — a song and folk dance of Cuba.
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- copperah — copra.
- copperas — ferrous sulfate
- copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
- coprosma — any shrub of the Australasian rubiaceous genus Coprosma: sometimes planted for ornament
- copyread — to subedit
- corporal — A corporal is a non-commissioned officer in the army or United States Marines.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- doxapram — a drug used to stimulate the respiratory process
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- drop-add — the period at the beginning of a term when students can sign up for new courses and drop courses for which they were previously registered
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epilator — An electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.
- epiphora — Excessive watering of the eye.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- european — geography
- exocarps — Plural form of exocarp.
- exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
- expiator — One who makes expiation or atonement.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.