8-letter words containing p, o, r, l
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- piliform — having the form of a hair; resembling hair.
- pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
- pillwort — a small Eurasian water fern, Pilularia globulifera, with globular spore-producing bodies and grasslike leaves
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- play for — sport: represent, be on the side of
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playroom — a room set aside for children's play or adult recreation.
- plectron — plectrum.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- pliotron — any hot-cathode vacuum tube having an anode and one or more grids.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- polarize — to cause polarization in.
- polaroid — instant photograph
- polestar — Polaris.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- policier — French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- poltroon — a wretched coward; craven.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polybrid — a hybrid plant with more than two parental groups
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- polydrug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polymery — the characteristic of having many parts
- polypary — the common supporting structure of a colony of polyps, as corals.
- polypore — a woody pore fungus, Laetiporus (Polyporus) sulphureus, that forms large, brightly colored, shelflike growths on old logs and tree stumps.
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- poolroom — an establishment or room for the playing of pool or billiards.
- poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
- poorwill — a small bird of North America
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- porously — full of pores.
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- portaloo — a portable toilet
- porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.