8-letter words containing p, r, o
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geoprobe — a probing device used for sampling soil
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- gonopore — an opening through which eggs or sperm are released, especially in invertebrates.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- gospeler — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- gospodar — a hospodar; a master
- gossiper — idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
- gossipry — Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
- grandpop — (US, informal) grandfather.
- grogshop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- groupers — Plural form of grouper.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- grouplet — a small group
- groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- gryphons — Plural form of gryphon.
- gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
- guy rope — A guy rope is a rope or wire that has one end fastened to a tent or pole and the other end fixed to the ground, so that it keeps the tent or pole in position.
- gyp-room — a pantry, especially one attached to a student's quarters.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- harpoons — Plural form of harpoon.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- heroship — The character or personality of a hero.
- hip roof — a roof with sloping ends and sides; a hipped roof.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- hornpout — horned pout.
- horopito — a bushy New Zealand shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, with red aromatic peppery leaves. It possesses antifungal and antibacterial properties
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- horsepox — a disease in horses caused by a virus and characterized by eruptions in the mouth and on the skin.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.