8-letter words containing p, r, o
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- 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.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- choppers — teeth
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- coalport — a white translucent bone china having richly coloured moulded patterns, made in the 19th century at Coalport near Shrewsbury
- coappear — to appear jointly
- cockspur — a spur on the leg of a cock
- com port — communications port
- compadre — a male friend
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- comparer — One who, or that which, compares.
- compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
- comparsa — a song and folk dance of Cuba.
- compeers — A person of equal rank, status, or ability.
- compered — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- comperes — Plural form of compere.
- competer — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- compiler — A compiler is someone who compiles books, reports, or lists of information.
- complier — a person who complies
- comports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comport.
- composer — A composer is a person who writes music, especially classical music.
- compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
- comprint — to print jointly
- comprise — If you say that something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, you mean it has them as its parts or members.
- comprize — comprise.
- comprosl — COMpound PROcedural Scientific Language. A language for scientists and engineers.
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computor — (obsolete) A person who calculates or computes.
- conspire — If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it.
- coopered — a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- coparent — a fellow parent