8-letter words containing p, r, o
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- cuspidor — spittoon
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- d-prolog — (language) A version of Prolog extended with defeasible reasoning.
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- deplored — to regret deeply or strongly; lament: to deplore the present state of morality.
- deplorer — One who deplores.
- deplores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplore.
- deployer — a person or thing that deploys
- deported — Simple past tense and past participle of deport.
- deportee — A deportee is someone who is being deported.
- deporter — a person or thing that deports
- deptford — a district in the Greater London borough of Lewisham, on the S bank of the River Thames: formerly the site of the Royal Naval dockyard
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- diopters — Plural form of diopter.
- dioptres — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- dioptric — Optics. pertaining to dioptrics: dioptric images.
- diprotic — (of an acid) having two transferable protons.
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- disproof — the act of disproving.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dog-poor — very poor.
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- doorpost — doorjamb.
- doorstep — a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.
- doorstop — a device for holding a door open, as a wedge or small weight.
- dopester — a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- dopplers — Plural form of doppler.
- douzeper — a member of the douzepers
- downpour — a heavy, drenching rain.
- doxapram — a drug used to stimulate the respiratory process
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- drop off — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop tee — a tee having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drop-add — the period at the beginning of a term when students can sign up for new courses and drop courses for which they were previously registered
- drop-box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.