8-letter words containing p, o, c
- pochette — kit2 .
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- pocketer — a person who pockets something
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- poechore — a dry region
- poematic — relating to or resembling poetry
- poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- polemics — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- poli sci — political science: to major in poli sci.
- policier — French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.
- policies — the enclosed grounds and gardens surrounding a large country house or mansion
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- politick — to engage in politicking.
- politico — a politician.
- politics — the science or art of political government.
- poly i:c — a synthetic RNA that promotes the production of interferon in the body
- poly sci — poli sci
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- polyenic — relating to a polyene
- polyzoic — (of a bryozoan colony) composed of many zooids.
- poncelet — Jean Victor [zhahn veek-tawr] /ʒɑ̃ vikˈtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1788–1867, French mathematician.
- ponchoed — wearing a poncho
- pontific — pontifical.
- poor cod — Trisopterus minutus; a small member of the cod family
- popsicle — ice lolly
- populace — the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
- poristic — of or relating to a porism
- porkchop — a chop of pork.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- post hoc — after this; afterward.
- 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.
- postcava — See under vena cava.
- postcode — an official code used by the post office, similar to the U.S. zip code, that adds numbers and letters to addresses to expedite mail delivery.
- postcomm — (in Britain) the Postal Services Commission, a body set up to look after the interests of postal service users
- postcoup — of, relating to, or occurring after a coup
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- postical — (of the position of plant parts) behind another part; posterior
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- posticum — epinaos.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postsync — postsynchronization
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- pot luck — food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.