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8-letter words containing p, r, o, c

  • inceptor — to take in; ingest.
  • incorpse — to incorporate
  • iriscope — an instrument that displays the prismatic colours, consisting of a polished black glass which is breathed upon via a tube
  • jumprock — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Moxostoma, of the southeastern U.S.
  • killcrop — a baby that is always hungry, thought to be a fairy changeling
  • leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
  • listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
  • lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
  • logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
  • macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
  • maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
  • megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
  • mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
  • mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
  • mic drop — a gesture in which a person drops (or imitates the action of dropping) a handheld microphone to the ground as the finale to a speech or performance
  • mic-drop — the act of intentionally dropping one’s microphone at the end of a speech or performance, displaying a bold confidence that it has been very impressive or cannot be topped.
  • microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
  • microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
  • micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
  • micropig — A miniature breed of pig.
  • monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
  • necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
  • occupier — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
  • opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • opificer — someone who makes something; a craftsman
  • outcaper — to exceed in capering
  • outcrops — Plural form of outcrop.
  • outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
  • overcrop — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
  • overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
  • oxpecker — either of two African starlings of the genus Buphagus, characterized by their habit of riding on large, wild animals and domestic cattle to feed on ticks.
  • parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
  • parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
  • parcours — parcourse.
  • parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
  • parochin — a parish
  • pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
  • pecorino — a dry, hard Italian cheese made of ewe's milk, especially Romano.
  • pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
  • perclose — parclose.
  • percolin — a pain-relieving drug
  • perfecto — a rather thick, medium-sized cigar tapering almost down to a point at each end.
  • perforce — of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance: The story must perforce be true.
  • pericope — a selection or extract from a book.
  • periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
  • periotic — surrounding the ear.
  • persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
  • petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
  • picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
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