8-letter words containing po
- apositia — a lack of appetite
- apositic — causing apositia
- apospory — development of the gametophyte from the sporophyte without the formation of spores
- apostacy — Abandonment of religion.
- apostasy — If someone is accused of apostasy, they are accused of abandoning their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- apostate — An apostate is someone who has abandoned their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- apostilb — a unit of luminance equal to one ten thousandth of a lambert.
- apostles — Plural form of apostle.
- apothece — a shop or storehouse
- apothegm — a short, pithy saying (Ex.: “Brevity is the soul of wit”)
- appoints — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appoint.
- apporter — (obsolete) A bringer in; an importer.
- apposing — Present participle of appose.
- apposite — Something that is apposite is suitable for or appropriate to what is happening or being discussed.
- apurpose — (dialect) on purpose; deliberately.
- araponga — any of four species of South American birds of the genus Procnias, each having a bell-like call
- atropous — growing straight, without inversion
- backport — (software) To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
- barspoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- bean pot — a heavy, covered crockery or metal pot, suitable for the slow cooking of beans, stews, etc.
- beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- bedposts — one of the upright supports of a bedstead.
- bepommel — to beat vigorously
- bepowder — to cover with powder
- bespoken — a past participle of bespeak.
- bespouse — to marry
- blogpost — A blogpost is a piece of writing that forms part of a regular blog.
- bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
- bullpout — a type of fish
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- calpolli — A subdivision of an altepetl; a
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponata — (in Sicilian cookery) a dish of fried seasoned aubergine and other vegetables, served as an appetizer
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- car pool — A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
- car port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
- car-pool — Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cesspool — A cesspool is the same as a cesspit.
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot