8-letter words containing p, o, u, r
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outcrops — Plural form of outcrop.
- outgroup — (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
- outports — Plural form of outport.
- outpours — Plural form of outpour.
- outpower — to have more power than or defeat by power
- outpreen — to exceed in preening
- outpress — to press out
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- outsport — to sport in excess of
- outstrip — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- outtrump — to outplay or exceed in trumping
- overjump — to jump too far over
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- overpump — to pump too much so as to deplete
- owerloup — an encroachment
- paramour — an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
- parcours — parcourse.
- paroquet — parakeet.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pauropod — a member of the Pauropoda, a class of minute myriapods less than 2 mm (1⁄20 in.) in size, having 8 to 10 pairs of legs and branched antennae
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- polydrug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- porously — full of pores.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- postburn — after injury from burns
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pour out — liquid: tip from a receptacle
- pourable — able to be poured
- power up — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- poxvirus — any of a group of large, brick-shaped DNA-containing viruses that infect humans and other animals, including the viruses of smallpox and various other poxes.
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
- preludio — a musical prelude
- premould — to mould in advance
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- preunion — a meeting in advance of a permanent union