8-letter words containing p, o, e
- operator — a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- operetta — a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- opificer — someone who makes something; a craftsman
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
- opposers — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- opsonize — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.
- optimate — a Roman aristocrat
- optimise — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimize — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optioned — the power or right of choosing.
- optionee — a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
- optotype — type used on an eye chart.
- opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
- 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
- opuscule — a small or minor work.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
- otoscope — an instrument for examining the external canal and tympanic membrane of the ear.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- outpower — to have more power than or defeat by power
- outpreen — to exceed in preening
- outpress — to press out
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- outsleep — to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- outspell — to surpass at spelling
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
- outspoke — Simple past form of outspeak.
- outsweep — an outward movement of arms in swimming breaststroke
- outswept — curving outwards
- overcrop — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overheap — to supply too much