8-letter words containing as
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- outlasts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlast.
- outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- overeasy — too easy
- overfast — too fast
- overmast — to provide (a ship) with a mast that is too tall or heavy
- overpass — a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
- overrash — too rash
- overseas — over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- oxidasic — relating to enzymes that catalyse oxidation
- paduasoy — a slightly corded, strong, rich, silk fabric.
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- pandavas — (in the Mahabharata) the family of Arjuna, at war with their cousins, the Kauravas.
- parasail — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- parasang — an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
- parashah — a portion of the Torah chanted or read each week in the synagogue on the Sabbath.
- parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- pas alle — a simple walking step in which the whole foot is put down softly on the ground.
- pas seul — a dance performed by one person; dance solo.
- pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- pascal-m — ["Pascal-m: A Language for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems", S. Abramsky et al in Distributed Computing Systems, Y. Paker et al eds, Academic Press 1986, pp. 163-189].
- pascal-p — (language) The variant of Pascal used by the UCSD p-system environment. Pascal-P has extended string and array operations, random-access files and separate compilation. It uses P-code intermediate code and is available from Pecan.
- pascal-s — Simplified Pascal. June, 1975. A strict subset of Pascal, omits scalar types, subranges, sets, files, pointers, packed structures, 'with' and 'goto. Source for a complete Pascal-S compiler is in "Pascal-S: A Subset and Its Implementation", N. Wirth in Pascal - The Language and Its Implementation, by D.W. Barron, Wiley 1979.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- paspalum — any of various grasses of the genus Paspalum of Australia and New Zealand having wide leaves
- pasquale — a male given name.
- pass for — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pass law — (formerly, in South Africa) a law restricting the movement of Black Africans, esp from rural to urban areas
- pass off — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pass out — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- passable — capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream.
- passably — fairly; moderately: a passably good novel.
- passband — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- passbook — a bankbook.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- passerby — a person passing by.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- passions — desire
- passless — (of a person) having no pass or authorization
- passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
- passover — Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel.