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8-letter words containing p, o, i, r

  • fire pot — the part of a household furnace in which the fire is made.
  • firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
  • firestop — any object built into a building frame to block a concealed hollow space through which a fire might pass from one part of the building to another.
  • floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
  • fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
  • foreship — the prow or forepart of a ship
  • frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
  • geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
  • gossiper — idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
  • gossipry — Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
  • groupies — Plural form of groupie.
  • grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
  • groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
  • groupist — a follower of a group
  • groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
  • heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
  • heroship — The character or personality of a hero.
  • hip roof — a roof with sloping ends and sides; a hipped roof.
  • hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
  • horopito — a bushy New Zealand shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, with red aromatic peppery leaves. It possesses antifungal and antibacterial properties
  • hydropic — dropsical.
  • hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
  • impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • implored — Simple past tense and past participle of implore.
  • implorer — One who implores.
  • implores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implore.
  • impolder — to make into a polder; reclaim (land) from the sea
  • imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
  • imported — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
  • importee — an imported person or thing.
  • importer — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
  • imposter — a tax; tribute; duty.
  • impostor — a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
  • imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
  • imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
  • improper — not proper; not strictly belonging, applicable, correct, etc.; erroneous: He drew improper conclusions from the scant evidence.
  • improved — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
  • improver — a person or thing that improves.
  • improves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improve.
  • impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
  • in power — in authority
  • in sport — in joke or jest; not in earnest
  • in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
  • inceptor — to take in; ingest.
  • incorpse — to incorporate
  • infoporn — Information which does not serve a purpose other than to hold the attention of its audience; information for information's sake.
  • interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
  • iodophor — a complex of iodine and a surfactant that releases free iodine in solution, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
  • ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
  • irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
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