8-letter words containing t, s, o, p
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- postburn — after injury from burns
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postcava — See under vena cava.
- 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.
- postcomm — (in Britain) the Postal Services Commission, a body set up to look after the interests of postal service users
- postcoup — of, relating to, or occurring after a coup
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- postdive — following a dive, esp a scuba dive
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- 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
- postform — to remould or reshape plastic after reheating
- 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.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- 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.
- postical — (of the position of plant parts) behind another part; posterior
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- posticum — epinaos.
- postlude — a concluding piece or movement.
- 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.
- postmill — a windmill with machinery mounted on a frame that turns in its entirety to face the wind.
- postnati — those born after a particular event, esp in Scotland after the union with England or in the US after the Declaration of Independence
- postoral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- postpaid — envelope, card: prepaid
- 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.”.
- postpunk — of or related to a style of music that followed punk rock
- postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postriot — of or relating to the period after a riot
- postshow — of or relating to the period after a show, occurring after a show
- postsync — postsynchronization
- postteen — a person older than a teenager; young adult
- posttest — an achievement test administered after a course of instruction.
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pot shot — a shot fired at game merely for food, with little regard to skill or the rules of sport.
- potassic — of, relating to, or containing potassium.
- 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.
- pothooks — a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.
- 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.
- 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.
- prestore — Computers. to fix an opening value for (the address of an operand or of a cycle index).
- prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.