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8-letter words containing r, o, m

  • paramour — an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
  • paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
  • paronymy — a play on words
  • parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
  • paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
  • passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
  • patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
  • pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
  • pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
  • pembroke — a borough in Dyfed, in SW Wales: birthplace of King Henry VII.
  • pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
  • phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
  • phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
  • piciform — of or relating to birds belonging to the six families which make up the order Piciformes. The best-known of these six is the Picidae family and the entire order is made up of mainly tree-haunting birds
  • 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.
  • picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
  • piliform — having the form of a hair; resembling hair.
  • pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
  • pisiform — having the shape of a pea; pea-shaped.
  • planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
  • platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
  • playroom — a room set aside for children's play or adult recreation.
  • pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • podomere — any segment of a limb of an arthropod.
  • polymery — the characteristic of having many parts
  • 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.
  • pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
  • pontormo — Jacopo da (ˈjaːkopo da). original name Jacopo Carrucci. 1494–1556, Italian mannerist painter
  • poolroom — an establishment or room for the playing of pool or billiards.
  • poriform — resembling a pore in form.
  • pornomag — pornographic magazine
  • porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
  • postform — to remould or reshape plastic after reheating
  • postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • premodel — a representation, generally in miniature, to show the construction or appearance of something.
  • premolar — situated in front of the molar teeth.
  • premoral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
  • premorse — having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.
  • premould — to mould in advance
  • premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
  • prenomen — praenomen.
  • primrose — Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
  • primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
  • prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
  • pro-form — a word used to replace or substitute for a word, phrase, or clause belonging to a given grammatical class, as a pronoun used to replace a noun or noun phrase, there used to replace an adverb or adverbial phrase of place, as in I parked the car near the entrance and left it there, or so used to substitute for a clause, as in Have they come? I think so.
  • proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • prodomos — an open vestibule, as a pronaos.
  • prodrome — a premonitory symptom.
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