8-letter words containing p, a, r, o
- forepart — the first, front, or early part.
- forepast — bygone
- forepaws — Plural form of forepaw.
- forepeak — the extreme forward part of the interior of a hull (opposed to afterpeak).
- foreplan — to plan in advance
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- forspeak — to bewitch
- fourplay — Quad play.
- frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
- frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- gospodar — a hospodar; a master
- grandpop — (US, informal) grandfather.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- harpoons — Plural form of harpoon.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- iron pan — a hard layer of precipitated iron salts often found below the surface of sands and gravels
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jamproof — built so as to prevent jamming: a jamproof copying machine.
- jatropha — Any of several plants, of the genus Jatropha, native to the Northern Hemisphere; some have medicinal attributes and others are grown as a source of biodiesel.
- jeopards — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopard.
- jeopardy — hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- la porte — a city in NW Indiana.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- lap robe — a blanket, fur covering, or the like, used to cover one's lap or legs, as when sitting outdoors or riding in an open vehicle.
- lapboard — a thin, flat board to be held on the lap for use as a table or writing surface.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis