8-letter words containing roo
- poolroom — an establishment or room for the playing of pool or billiards.
- proofing — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- ratproof — impenetrable by rats, resistant to rats
- re-proof — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
- rec room — a recreation room.
- regroove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- restroom — rooms or a room having a washbowl, toilet, and other facilities for use by employees, visitors, etc., as in a store, theater, or office.
- roof rat — a black rat, Rattus rattus alexandrinus, often found on the upper floors of buildings in warm areas.
- roofless — having no roof.
- roofline — the outline of a rooftop.
- rooftree — the ridgepole of a roof.
- room key — A room key is a key given to a guest in a hotel in order to open or lock the door of their room.
- roomette — a small private compartment in the sleeping car of a train, usually for one person, containing its own washroom facilities and a bed that folds against the wall when not in use.
- roommate — a person who is assigned to share or shares a room or apartment with another or others.
- roomsome — roomy or spacious
- roorback — a false and more or less damaging report circulated for political effect, usually about a candidate seeking an office.
- roosting — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- root cap — the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- root for — to encourage a team or contestant by cheering or applauding enthusiastically. Synonyms: cheer, cheer on, shout for, applaud, clap, boost, support.
- root out — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- root rot — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by discoloration and decay of the roots.
- rootball — a roughly spherical aggregate of roots and soil that is transplanted with a plant, especially a tree or shrub.
- rootedly — in a rooted manner
- roothold — attachment of a plant to soil by means of its roots; support of a plant through the growing and spreading of its roots.
- rootless — having no roots.
- rootlike — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rootworm — the larva of any of several insects, as the cucumber beetle, that feeds on the roots of plants.
- roseroot — any of certain perennial mountain plants, as Sedum rosea, Sedum rhodiola, or Rhodiola rosea, so called because the roots smell like roses.
- rotproof — resistant to rotting.
- runproof — made to resist unraveling, runs, or running, as stockings or dyes.
- sailroom — the space on a ship for storing sails
- saleroom — Chiefly British. salesroom (def 2).
- scrootch — to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, or up).
- sea room — unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- showroom — a room used for the display of goods or merchandise.
- sickroom — a room in which a sick person is confined.
- soaproot — any plant of the genus Chlorogalum whose roots may be used as a soap substitute
- sockeroo — a notable success: Her performance was a sockeroo.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- sunproof — impervious to sunlight or damage by the rays of the sun.
- tap-root — a main root descending downward from the radicle and giving off small lateral roots.
- tea room — A tea room is the same as a tea shop.
- tenoroon — a woodwind instrument which is a cross between a tenor bassoon and an oboe
- toolroom — a room, as in a machine shop, in which tools are stored, repaired, produced, etc.
- trooping — an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- uprootal — an act or instance of uprooting
- uprooted — having been pulled up by or as if by the roots
- wallaroo — any of several large kangaroos of the genus Macropus (Osphranter), of the grassy plains of Australia, especially M. robustus, having a reddish-gray coat and inhabiting rocky hills.