8-letter words containing roo
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gillaroo — a type of brown trout
- go crook — to lose one's temper
- gombroon — a type of Persian pottery ware.
- groomers — Plural form of groomer.
- grooming — a bridegroom.
- grooving — 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.
- gun room — a room in which guns are kept.
- gunrooms — Plural form of gunroom.
- gyp-room — a pantry, especially one attached to a student's quarters.
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- henroost — A place used by hens for roosting.
- hip roof — a roof with sloping ends and sides; a hipped roof.
- holbrook — Stewart H(all) 1893–1964, U.S. historian and editor.
- holyrood — the cross on which Jesus died.
- homeroom — a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.
- ingroove — to cut a groove into
- jackaroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackeroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jamproof — built so as to prevent jamming: a jamproof copying machine.
- jillaroo — (Australia) A female jackaroo, a woman who does the job of a jackaroo.
- kangaroo — any herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a small head, short forelimbs, powerful hind legs used for leaping, and a long, thick tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- kangeroo — Archaic form of kangaroo.
- kneeroom — space to put one's knees
- knotroot — Chinese artichoke.
- leg room — space to move one's legs
- lynbrook — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- macaroon — a drop cookie made of egg whites, sugar, usually almond paste or coconut, and sometimes a little flour.
- mailroom — Also, mail room. a room used for handling incoming and outgoing mail, as in a large organization.
- marooned — to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.
- marooner — a person, often a fugitive, who lives in a remote area and survives as a hunter or buccaneer
- messroom — a dining room aboard ship or at a naval base.
- moonroof — a transparent section of an automobile roof that can be propped open, removed entirely, or remain fixed within the roof.
- mud room — a vestibule or other area in a house, in which wet and muddy clothes or footwear are removed.
- mudrooms — Plural form of mudroom.
- mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- netroots — Grassroots political activism on the internet, especially on blogs.
- newsroom — a room in the offices of a newspaper, news service, or broadcasting organization in which the news is processed.
- octaroon — Alternative spelling of octoroon.
- octoroon — a person having one-eighth black ancestry, with one black great-grandparent; the offspring of a quadroon and a white person.
- oilproof — resistant to oil
- pentroof — a roof sloping in only one direction
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- pinkroot — the root of any of various plants belonging to the genus Spigelia, of the logania family, especially that of S. marilandica of the U.S., that is used as a vermifuge.
- pipperoo — pip3 (def 2).
- playroom — a room set aside for children's play or adult recreation.
- pokeroot — pokeweed
- poltroon — a wretched coward; craven.