8-letter words containing p, o, c
- cesspool — A cesspool is the same as a cesspit.
- champion — A champion is someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight.
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- chicopee — city in SW Mass., on the Connecticut River: pop. 55,000
- chilopod — any arthropod of the class Chilopoda, which includes the centipedes
- chip box — chad box
- chip log — a log for determining a vessel's speed, consisting of a wooden chip tossed overboard at the end of a line that is marked off in lengths of 47 feet 3 inches; the speed is calculated by counting the number of such intervals that pass overboard in a 28-second interval
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- chomping — Present participle of chomp.
- chop off — To chop off something such as a part of someone's body means to cut it off.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppers — teeth
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- choppily — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chopping — to cut or sever with a quick, heavy blow or a series of blows, using an ax, hatchet, etc. (often followed by down, off, etc.): to chop down a tree.
- cioppino — an Italian rich fish stew
- clifftop — A clifftop is the area of land around the top of a cliff.
- clip-ons — sunglasses designed to be clipped on to a person's spectacles
- clip-out — intended to be clipped out, as from a newspaper: a clip-out coupon.
- clock up — If you clock up a large number or total of things, you reach that number or total.
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clodpole — a dull or stupid person
- clodpoll — a stupid or foolish person; blockhead
- clomping — Present participle of clomp.
- clopping — a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- close up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
- close-up — the end or conclusion: at the close of day; the close of the speech.
- closeups — Plural form of closeup.
- clupeoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), a large order of soft-finned fishes, including the herrings, salmon, and tarpon
- co-pilot — The co-pilot of an aircraft is a pilot who assists the chief pilot.
- coal pit — a pit where coal is dug.
- coal pot — a cooking device using charcoal, consisting of a raised iron bowl and a central grid
- coalport — a white translucent bone china having richly coloured moulded patterns, made in the 19th century at Coalport near Shrewsbury
- coappear — to appear jointly
- cockapoo — a cross between a cocker spaniel and a poodle
- cockpits — Plural form of cockpit.
- cockspur — a spur on the leg of a cock
- cocoplum — a tropical shrub, Chrysobalanus icaco
- codpiece — A codpiece was a piece of material worn by men in the 15th and 16th centuries to cover their genitals.
- coemploy — to employ together
- coked-up — showing the effects of having taken cocaine
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- colophon — a publisher's emblem on a book