8-letter words containing t, r, o, p, e
- forepast — bygone
- foretops — Plural form of foretop.
- forspent — worn out; exhausted.
- freeport — a village on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- freepost — Freepost is a system in Britain which allows you to send mail to certain organizations without paying for the postage. 'Freepost' is written on the envelope as part of the address.
- grouplet — a small group
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- imported — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- importee — an imported person or thing.
- importer — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- imposter — a tax; tribute; duty.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- la porte — a city in NW Indiana.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metopryl — a colourless liquid, C4H10O, that is related to ether and was formerly used as an anaesthetic
- obtemper — to comply (with)
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- operator — a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator.
- operetta — a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- 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
- overpart — to give (an actor) too difficult a role
- overpert — too insolent
- overplot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- overpost — to hurry over
- overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
- overtrip — to tread lightly over
- overtype — to replace (typed text) by typing new text in the same place
- paroquet — parakeet.
- parroket — parakeet.
- 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.
- parroter — a person who repeats the words or ideas of others