8-letter words containing p, a, r, o
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- play for — sport: represent, be on the side of
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playroom — a room set aside for children's play or adult recreation.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- polaroid — instant photograph
- polestar — Polaris.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- polypary — the common supporting structure of a colony of polyps, as corals.
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- ponderal — relating to weight
- poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
- pop star — a famous singer or musician who performs pop music
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- pornomag — pornographic magazine
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portaloo — a portable toilet
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- portlast — the gunnel of a ship
- portolan — a book of sailing charts with notations on coasts, harbours, etc
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- post-war — following a major conflict
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potatory — of, relating to, or given to drinking.