8-letter words containing p, o, g
- kingpost — vertical post connecting the apex of a triangular roof truss to the tie beam
- kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- leg drop — a narrow scenery flat or drop, often used in a pair to form an inverted U .
- leg rope — a rope used to secure an animal by its hind leg
- lipgloss — Alternative spelling of lip gloss.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- log chip — the wooden chip of a chip log, for holding the end of the log line.
- log ship — log chip.
- logotype — Also called logo. a single piece of type bearing two or more uncombined letters, a syllable, or a word.
- logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
- long hop — a short-pitched ball, which can easily be hit
- long pig — (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.
- longjump — jumping contest decided by length
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- m-prolog — 1. Marseille Prolog. 2. An extension to Prolog involving modules.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- micropig — A miniature breed of pig.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- n-prolog — Prolog extended with explicit negation. Dov Gabbay <[email protected]>.
- neopagan — Alternative spelling of neo-pagan.
- nonpagan — a person who is not a pagan
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- olongapo — a port in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- openings — Plural form of opening.
- opposing — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- optology — the science of testing eyes for lenses
- outgroup — (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
- p-prolog — (language) A parallel logic language.
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- pagandom — the part of the world inhabited by pagans.
- 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
- paignton — a town and resort in SW England, in Devon: administratively part of Torbay since 1968
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- papagayo — Gulf of, an inlet of the Pacific, on the NW coast of Costa Rica. 15 miles (25 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- 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.