8-letter words containing t, r, o, p, e
- ripe rot — a disease of fruit or vegetable storage organs at the ripening stage, caused by any of several fungi or bacteria and characterized by spotting and rapid decay.
- rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
- rope tow — ski tow.
- serotype — a group of organisms, microorganisms, or cells distinguished by their shared specific antigens as determined by serologic testing.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- spectro- — indicating a spectrum
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stepover — an instance of raising the foot over the ball while in possession in order to wrong-foot an opponent
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stopover — a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
- store up — save, keep in reserve
- strepto- — indicating a shape resembling a twisted chain
- stropper — a person who strops.
- superhot — extremely hot
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- teardrop — a tear or something suggesting a tear: A single teardrop rolled down her face.
- teleport — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- ternopol — a city in W Ukraine: formerly in Poland.
- tetrapod — any vertebrate having four limbs or, as in the snake and whale, having had four-limbed ancestors.
- the poor — poor, or needy, people collectively
- the rope — a rope, noose, or halter used for hanging
- theropod — any member of the suborder Theropoda, comprising carnivorous dinosaurs that had short forelimbs and walked or ran on their hind legs.
- thropple — the windpipe or throat
- tip over — to cause to assume a slanting or sloping position; incline; tilt.
- to press — to be printed
- to spare — more than is required
- top gear — the highest gear in a motor vehicle
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- topscore — to be the highest scorer in a sports match or competition
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- tour rep — A tour rep is the same as a holiday rep.
- trappose — relating to traprock
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- triptote — a word that has only three cases
- trollope — Anthony, 1815–82, English novelist.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- uprooted — having been pulled up by or as if by the roots
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- waterpot — A pot or jug for holding water.
- waterpox — chickenpox
- westport — a town in SW Connecticut.
- wetproof — waterproof.