8-letter words containing p, o, e, d
- oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- pardoner — a person who pardons.
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parroted — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pedro ii — (Dom Pedro II) 1825–91, emperor of Brazil 1831–89.
- peg down — to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- pennoned — equipped with a pennon
- perdendo — (of a piece of music) getting gradually quieter and dying away
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- periodid — kind of iodide
- peroxide — Chemistry. hydrogen peroxide, H 2 O 2 or H–O–O–H. a compound containing the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide, as sodium peroxide, Na 2 O 2 , or dimethyl peroxide, C 3 H 6 O 2 . the oxide of an element that contains an unusually large amount of oxygen.
- pet food — feed for domestic animals
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- petdingo — (tool) An Estelle to C++ translator.
- pezizoid — having the same shape or characteristics of the cup-like fungi that belong to the genus Peziza
- phelloid — having a resemblance to cork
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- piedmont — a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
- pinewood — the wood of a pine.
- pinioned — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- podetium — (in certain lichens) a stalk bearing an apothecium.
- podomere — any segment of a limb of an arthropod.
- pokeweed — a tall herb, Phytolacca americana, of North America, having juicy purple berries and a purple root used in medicine, and young edible shoots resembling asparagus.
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- poll end — the hub holding the sail arms of a windmill.