8-letter words containing p, c, o, s
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
- dystopic — Dystopian.
- ecotypes — Plural form of ecotype.
- epinosic — unhealthy
- episcope — An optical projector that gives images of opaque objects.
- episcopy — (obsolete) survey; superintendence.
- episodic — Containing or consisting of a series of loosely connected parts or events.
- escallop — A scallop shell as a charge.
- escalope — A thin slice of meat without any bone, typically a special cut of veal from the leg that is coated, fried, and served in a sauce.
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- exocarps — Plural form of exocarp.
- foolscap — a type of inexpensive writing paper, especially legal-size, lined, yellow sheets, bound in tablet form.
- glooscap — (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
- hencoops — Plural form of hencoop.
- hockshop — a pawnshop.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- incorpse — to incorporate
- iriscope — an instrument that displays the prismatic colours, consisting of a polished black glass which is breathed upon via a tube
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.
- isotopic — any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.
- isotypic — of or relating to an isotype.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- liposuck — to subject to liposuction
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- lopstick — a tree trimmed of all but its topmost branches to serve as a landmark or marker.
- lycopsid — Any primitive plant of the division Lycopodiophyta.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mopstick — a mop handle
- myoscope — an instrument for observing muscular contraction.
- necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- octopods — Plural form of octopod.
- octopush — the game of underwater hockey, in which two teams attempt to push a weighted object along the floor of a swimming pool
- octuples — Plural form of octuple.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- opticist — a person engaged in the fields of theoretical or applied optics.
- opuscule — a small or minor work.
- otoscope — an instrument for examining the external canal and tympanic membrane of the ear.
- otoscopy — an instrument for examining the external canal and tympanic membrane of the ear.
- outcrops — Plural form of outcrop.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outscoop — to surpass in scooping