8-Letter Words Containing: P,O,O,R,E,S,T

• A basketball player.

• look down on

• A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.

• A pansy, an effeminate man.

• a platform at the head of a foremast

• a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears

• (nautical) a rope used in towing

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

• be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

• change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent

• the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway

• a professional killer who uses a gun

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)

• a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface

• a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead

• armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target

• any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges

• attack or hit with torpedoes

• a soldier in a motorized army unit

• a mounted police officer

• a state police officer

• a soldier mounted on horseback