8-letter words containing p, y, r, o
- paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- pastorly — of or relating to a pastor
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- petitory — requesting or entreating
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pityroid — scaly; resembling bran.
- 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.
- podgorny — Nikolai Viktorovich [nyi-kuh-lahy vyeek-tuh-ruh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ ˈvyik tə rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1965–77.
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- 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.
- 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.
- poor boy — Southern U.S. (chiefly Gulf States) . a hero sandwich.
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
- porosity — the state or quality of being porous.
- porously — full of pores.
- porphyry — a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.
- porridgy — resembling the taste, texture, or appearance of porridge
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter
- potatory — of, relating to, or given to drinking.
- primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
- priority — the state or quality of being earlier in time, occurrence, etc.
- privy to — knowing: sth confidential
- probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.
- promptly — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- propenyl — containing the propenyl group.
- properly — adapted or appropriate to the purpose or circumstances; fit; suitable: the proper time to plant strawberries.
- property — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
- prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- prophesy — to foretell or predict.
- prophyll — one of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow
- propylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the propyl group.
- propylon — propylaeum.
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- provably — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- psychro- — cold
- purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose