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

  • flopover — a continuous, vertical movement of a television image picture caused by interference in reception or by improper tuning.
  • floppers — air plant (def 2).
  • floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
  • for loop — (programming)   A loop construct found in many procedural languages which repeatedly executes some instructions while a condition is true. In C, the for loop is written in the form; for (INITIALISATION; CONDITION; AFTER) STATEMENT; where INITIALISATION is an expression that is evaluated once before the loop, CONDITION is evaluated before each iteration and the loop exits if it is false, AFTER is evaluated after each iteration, and STATEMENT is any statement, including a compound statement within braces "..", that is executed if CONDITION is true. For example: int i; for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { printf("Hello\n"); } prints "Hello" 10 times. Other languages provide a more succinct form of "for" statement specifically for iterating over arrays or lists. E.g., the Perl code, for my $task (@tasks) { postpone($task); } calls function "postpone()" repeatedly, setting $task to each element of the "@tasks" array in turn. This avoids introducing temporary index variables like "i" in the previous example. The for loop is an alternative way of writing a while loop that is convenient because the loop control logic is collected in a single place. It is also closely related to the repeat loop.
  • foreplan — to plan in advance
  • foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
  • forepole — Also called spile, spill. any of a number of boards or timbers driven forward on top of a set to protect miners lengthening a tunnel from falling debris.
  • fourplay — Quad play.
  • fourplex — quadplex.
  • frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
  • galloper — One who gallops.
  • gospeler — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
  • grouplet — a small group
  • gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
  • heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
  • hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
  • 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
  • impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
  • interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
  • killcrop — a baby that is always hungry, thought to be a fairy changeling
  • kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
  • kompiler — (language)   An early system on the IBM 701. Versions: KOMPILER 2 for IBM 701, KOMPILER 3 for IBM 704.
  • la porte — a city in NW Indiana.
  • lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
  • lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
  • lap robe — a blanket, fur covering, or the like, used to cover one's lap or legs, as when sitting outdoors or riding in an open vehicle.
  • lapboard — a thin, flat board to be held on the lap for use as a table or writing surface.
  • 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
  • leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
  • leopards — Plural form of leopard.
  • leporide — a Belgian hare formerly believed to be a hybrid of the European rabbit and hare.
  • leporine — of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.
  • leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
  • lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
  • listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
  • lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
  • logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
  • 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
  • lordship — (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
  • lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
  • m-prolog — 1. Marseille Prolog. 2. An extension to Prolog involving modules.
  • maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
  • malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
  • malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
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