8-letter words containing p, o, e
- overhope — excessive hope
- overhype — to promote excessively
- overjump — to jump too far over
- overkeep — to keep too long
- overleap — to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overpark — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- overpart — to give (an actor) too difficult a role
- overpass — a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
- overpeer — to tower over
- overpert — too insolent
- overplan — to plan excessively
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- overplot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- overpost — to hurry over
- overpump — to pump too much so as to deplete
- overripe — too ripe; more than ripe: overripe tomatoes.
- overskip — to skip over
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- overspin — topspin.
- overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
- overtrip — to tread lightly over
- overtype — to replace (typed text) by typing new text in the same place
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- owerloup — an encroachment
- oxazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 1 5 H 1 1 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.
- oxpecker — either of two African starlings of the genus Buphagus, characterized by their habit of riding on large, wild animals and domestic cattle to feed on ticks.
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pahoehoe — basaltic lava having a smooth or billowy surface.
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- papooses — a North American Indian baby or young child.
- papulose — having papules
- parabole — a simile
- paragoge — the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word, as in the nonstandard pronunciation of height as height-th or once as once-t.
- paranoea — Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- pardoner — a person who pardons.