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8-letter words containing s, e, p, o

  • popeseye — denoting a cut of steak
  • popeship — the office of a pope
  • popsicle — ice lolly
  • popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
  • poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
  • porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
  • porpoise — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
  • portesse — a small book of prayers, psalms, hymns, etc
  • portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
  • portress — a woman who has charge of a door or gate; a female doorkeeper.
  • portside — situated on the port side
  • poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
  • poseidon — the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes, identified by the Romans with Neptune.
  • positive — admitting of no question: positive proof.
  • possible — that may or can be, exist, happen, be done, be used, etc.: a disease with no possible cure.
  • postages — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
  • postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
  • postcode — an official code used by the post office, similar to the U.S. zip code, that adds numbers and letters to addresses to expedite mail delivery.
  • postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
  • postdive — following a dive, esp a scuba dive
  • postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
  • postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
  • postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
  • postgres — (database)   An active DBMS developed at the University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
  • postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
  • posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
  • postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
  • postlude — a concluding piece or movement.
  • postpone — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
  • postpose — to place (a grammatical form) after a related grammatical form: The adverb “out” in “put out the light” is postposed in “put the light out.”.
  • postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
  • postrace — designating the period after a race
  • postteen — a person older than a teenager; young adult
  • posttest — an achievement test administered after a course of instruction.
  • potatoes — Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
  • potestas — the authority of a paterfamilias over all members of his family and household.
  • pothouse — (formerly) a small tavern or pub
  • potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
  • potstone — a kind of soapstone, sometimes used for making pots and other household utensils.
  • powerset — (mathematics)   The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
  • pre-loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
  • pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
  • precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • preclose — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
  • prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
  • premorse — having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.
  • prescore — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
  • presolve — to solve beforehand
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