8-letter words containing t, r, o, p
- exported — Simple past tense and past participle of export.
- exporter — One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.
- fire pot — the part of a household furnace in which the fire is made.
- firestop — any object built into a building frame to block a concealed hollow space through which a fire might pass from one part of the building to another.
- footrope — the portion of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewn.
- forepart — the first, front, or early part.
- 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.
- front up — to pay (money) at the beginning of a business arrangement
- frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- grouplet — a small group
- gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- 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.
- hornpout — horned pout.
- horopito — a bushy New Zealand shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, with red aromatic peppery leaves. It possesses antifungal and antibacterial properties
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- 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.
- impostor — a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
- in sport — in joke or jest; not in earnest
- 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.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- isotropy — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- jatropha — Any of several plants, of the genus Jatropha, native to the Northern Hemisphere; some have medicinal attributes and others are grown as a source of biodiesel.
- 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.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- marsport — a spoilsport
- 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