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8-letter words containing p, o, c, h

  • pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
  • pitchout — Baseball. a ball purposely thrown by a pitcher too far outside of the plate for the batter to hit, especially in anticipation of an attempted steal by a base runner.
  • pitchpot — a pot used by sailors for heating pitch.
  • po chu-i — a.d. 772–846, Chinese poet.
  • poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
  • pochette — kit2 .
  • pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
  • poechore — a dry region
  • polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
  • ponchoed — wearing a poncho
  • porkchop — a chop of pork.
  • post hoc — after this; afterward.
  • postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
  • pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
  • potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
  • pouchful — the amount (of something) a pouch will hold
  • pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
  • pre-echo — something that has preceded and anticipated something else; precursor
  • prochoos — an elongated form of the oinochoe.
  • prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
  • psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
  • psychol. — psychological
  • psychro- — cold
  • puck hog — a player who is reluctant to pass the puck to other members of his or her team
  • pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
  • puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
  • pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
  • reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
  • rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
  • scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
  • sock hop — an informal dance where participants dance in their socks, popular esp. in the 1950s among high-school students
  • sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
  • splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
  • strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
  • subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
  • sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
  • the chop — dismissal from employment
  • topnotch — first-rate: a topnotch job.
  • touch up — the act or state of touching; state or fact of being touched.
  • touch-up — an act or instance of touching up: Her makeup needed a touch-up.
  • touchpad — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by sliding the finger along a touch-sensitive surface: used chiefly in laptop computers.
  • whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
  • woodchip — a small chip of wood, especially one that flakes off when felling a tree or splitting a log.
  • woodchop — To chop wood, especially as a sport.
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