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.