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.