8-letter words containing r, d, o, p
- operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthopod — an orthopedist.
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- paradrop — airdrop.
- paranoid — of, like, or suffering from paranoia.
- pardoner — a person who pardons.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- parodied — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- parroted — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- 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
- pavlodar — a city in NE Kazakhstan.
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
- pedro ii — (Dom Pedro II) 1825–91, emperor of Brazil 1831–89.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- perdendo — (of a piece of music) getting gradually quieter and dying away
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- periodid — kind of iodide
- peroxide — Chemistry. hydrogen peroxide, H 2 O 2 or H–O–O–H. a compound containing the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide, as sodium peroxide, Na 2 O 2 , or dimethyl peroxide, C 3 H 6 O 2 . the oxide of an element that contains an unusually large amount of oxygen.
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- pickford — Mary (Gladys Marie Smith) 1893–1979, U.S. motion-picture actress, born in Canada.
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- pityroid — scaly; resembling bran.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- 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.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- podomere — any segment of a limb of an arthropod.
- polaroid — instant photograph
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- polybrid — a hybrid plant with more than two parental groups
- polydrug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- pondered — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- ponderer — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- poor cod — Trisopterus minutus; a small member of the cod family
- porkwood — the wood of a small tree, Pisonia obtusata, native to the United States and Caribbean
- porridge — a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.
- porridgy — resembling the taste, texture, or appearance of porridge
- portered — (of an apartment block) serviced by a caretaker