8-letter words containing oa
- railroad — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- raincoat — a waterproof or water-repellent coat worn as protection against rain.
- red roan — a horse having a bay coat sprinkled with white hairs
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- reloaded — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- reloader — a person or thing that reloads something such as cargo or ammunition
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- retroact — to act in opposition; react.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- road hog — a driver who obstructs traffic by occupying parts of two lanes.
- road map — a map designed for motorists, showing the principal cities and towns of a state or area, the chief roads, usually tourist attractions and places of historical interest, and the mileage from one place to another.
- road tax — In Britain, road tax is a tax paid every year by the owners of every motor vehicle which is being used on the roads.
- roadkill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- roadside — the side or border of the road; wayside.
- roadster — an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- roanpipe — a drainpipe leading down from a gutter
- roarming — severe
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
- sailboat — a boat having sails as its principal means of propulsion.
- sandsoap — a gritty general-purpose soap
- sea foam — the foam of the sea.
- sea oats — a tall grass, Uniola paniculata, of coastal areas of southeastern North America, having as its inflorescence a densely crowded panicle, used to control sand erosion.
- seaboard — the line where land and sea meet.
- seacoast — the land immediately adjacent to the sea.
- she-goat — a female goat
- shedload — a very large amount or number
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- shitload — a lot of something; a large amount.
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- showboat — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- sideload — to transfer software, data, etc., from one local system or device to another, typically from one's computer to a mobile device.
- sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
- silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
- skyboard — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- soak out — to draw out (dirt, etc.) by or as by soaking
- soakaway — a pit filled with rubble, etc, into which rain or waste water drains
- soap pad — a small pad, usually of steel wool, containing a strong soap and used especially to scour pots and pans.
- soap-box — Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
- soapbark — a Chilean tree, Quillaja saponaria, of the rose family, having evergreen leaves and small, white flowers.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- soapfish — any of several serranid fishes of the genus Rypticus, producing a body mucus that gives the skin a soapy quality, as R. saponaceus, inhabiting shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- soapland — a Japanese bathhouse and brothel
- soapless — a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- soaproot — any plant of the genus Chlorogalum whose roots may be used as a soap substitute
- soapsuds — suds made with water and soap.
- soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
- soaraway — If you describe something as a soaraway success, you mean that its success has suddenly increased.