8-letter words containing oa
- flatboat — a large, flat-bottomed boat for use in shallow water, especially on rivers.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floatant — a substance used in fly-fishing to help dry flies to float
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- foamable — Capable of being converted into foam.
- foamiest — Superlative form of foamy.
- foamless — Without foam.
- foldboat — faltboat.
- freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gas coal — a soft coal suitable for the production of gas.
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- goadsman — a person who uses a goad
- goadster — a goadsman
- goalball — a game played by two teams who compete to score goals by throwing a ball that emits audible sound when in motion. Players, who may be blind or sighted, are blindfolded during play
- goalless — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- goalpost — a post supporting a crossbar and, with it, forming the goal on a playing field in certain sports, as football.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- goat god — a deity with the legs and feet of a goat, as Pan or a satyr.
- goatfish — any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goatlike — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- goatling — a young goat
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
- groaners — Plural form of groaner.
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- groaning — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- handload — to load (cartridges or other ammunition) by hand.
- highroad — Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- hoagland — Edward, born 1932, U.S. novelist and essayist.
- hoarders — Plural form of hoarder.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hoarhead — someone, esp an old man, with white hair
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hoarsest — Superlative form of hoarse.
- hoastman — a member of a former guild of tradesmen responsible for loading and shipping coal in Newcastle upon Tyne
- hoaxster — Alternative form of hoaxer (rare).
- holm oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus ilex, of southern Europe, having foliage resembling that of the holly.
- holyoake — Sir Keith Jacka [jak-uh] /ˈdʒæk ə/ (Show IPA), 1904–83, New Zealand political leader: prime minister 1957, 1960–72; governor general 1977–80.
- hookload — The hookload is the total force pulling down on the hook (= a high-capacity J-shaped piece of equipment).