8-letter words with OA in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter OA is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of OA in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how OA in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| approach | 17 | the act of drawing spatially closer to something | the hunter's approach scattered the geese |
| floating | 12 | the act of someone who floats on the water | - |
| boarding | 12 | the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | - |
| railroad | 9 | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | - |
| broadway | 17 | a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters | - |
| cupboard | 15 | a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | - |
| download | 13 | transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
| keyboard | 18 | device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like | - |
| coaching | 16 | the job of a professional coach | - |
| charcoal | 15 | a very dark grey color | - |
| raincoat | 10 | a water-resistant coat | - |
| roadside | 10 | edge of a way or road or path | - |
| meatloaf | 13 | a baked loaf of ground meat | - |
| unloaded | 10 | (of weapons) not charged with ammunition | many people are killed by guns thought to be unloaded |
| loathing | 12 | hate coupled with disgust | - |
| poaching | 16 | cooking in simmering liquid | - |
| boasting | 11 | speaking of yourself in superlatives | - |
| roasting | 9 | cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added) | the slow roasting took several hours |
| reproach | 15 | express criticism towards | The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior |
| overload | 12 | place too much a load on | don't overload the car |
| lifeboat | 13 | a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship | - |
| sailboat | 10 | a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast | - |
| hoarding | 13 | large outdoor signboard | - |
| overcoat | 13 | an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish) | - |
| workload | 16 | work that a person is expected to do in a specified time | - |
| croaking | 15 | a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | - |
| toasting | 9 | cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread |
| seaboard | 11 | the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort | - |
| coachman | 17 | a man who drives a coach (or carriage) | - |
| roadkill | 13 | the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill |
| boatload | 11 | the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | he imported wine by the boatload |
| gloating | 10 | malicious satisfaction | - |
| turncoat | 10 | a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | - |
| encroach | 15 | impinge or infringe upon | - |
| longboat | 11 | the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel | - |
| roadster | 9 | an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | - |
| outboard | 11 | internal-combustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat | - |
| boardman | 13 | - | - |
| showboat | 16 | a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River) | - |
| boastful | 13 | exhibiting self-importance | - |
| larboard | 11 | the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | - |
| boatyard | 14 | a place where boats are built or maintained or stored | - |
| goalpost | 11 | one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field | - |
| hoarsely | 14 | in a hoarse or husky voice | `Excuse me,' he said hoarsely |
| coalesce | 12 | mix together different elements | - |
| caseload | 11 | - | - |
| broached | 16 | of a cask or barrel | - |
| cartload | 11 | the quantity that a cart holds | - |
| throated | 12 | having a throat as specified | deep-throated |
| undoable | 11 | impossible to achieve | - |
| freeload | 12 | live off somebody's generosity | This young man refuses to work and is freeloading |
| coalmine | 12 | - | - |
| coatroom | 12 | a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | - |
| roadwork | 16 | - | - |
| toadying | 13 | - | - |
| goatskin | 13 | the hide of a goat | - |
| boatsman | 12 | - | - |
| inchoate | 13 | only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | a vague inchoate idea |
| gloaming | 12 | the time of day immediately following sunset | - |
| cocoanut | 12 | large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | - |
| goatherd | 13 | a person who tends a flock of goats | - |
| coalsack | 16 | - | - |
| coauthor | 13 | a writer who collaborates with others in writing something | - |
| coalface | 15 | the part of a coal seam that is being cut | - |
| unsoaked | 13 | - | - |
| unsoaped | 11 | - | - |
| upsoared | 11 | - | - |
| uploaded | 12 | - | - |
| uphoards | 14 | - | - |
| uproared | 11 | - | - |
| wayboard | 17 | - | - |
| workboat | 17 | - | - |
| vanloads | 12 | - | - |
| stroamed | 11 | - | - |
| subgoals | 11 | - | - |
| surfboat | 13 | a boat that can be launched or landed in heavy surf | - |
| surcoats | 10 | - | - |
| tagboard | 12 | - | - |
| tailcoat | 10 | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men | - |
| teaboard | 11 | - | - |
| toadfish | 15 | bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth | - |
| toadflax | 19 | common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America | - |
| toadless | 9 | - | - |
| toadlike | 13 | - | - |
| toadrush | 12 | - | - |
| toadyish | 15 | attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | - |
| toadyism | 14 | - | - |
| toasters | 8 | - | - |
| toastier | 8 | - | - |
| toasties | 8 | - | - |
| toheroas | 11 | - | - |
| tramroad | 11 | - | - |
| topcoats | 12 | - | - |
| towboats | 13 | - | - |
| troaking | 13 | - | - |
| troating | 9 | - | - |
| tugboats | 11 | - | - |
| uncoated | 11 | not having a coating | uncoated paper |
| uncloaks | 14 | - | - |
| unloader | 9 | - | - |
| unmoaned | 11 | - | - |
| unhoards | 12 | - | - |
| roaching | 14 | - | - |
| roadbeds | 12 | - | - |
| roadings | 10 | - | - |
| roadless | 9 | lacking pathways | roadless areas |
| roadshow | 15 | - | - |
| roadsman | 11 | - | - |
| rowboats | 13 | - | - |
| rubboard | 13 | - | - |
| roadsmen | 11 | - | - |
| roadways | 15 | - | - |
| roamings | 11 | - | - |
| roariest | 8 | - | - |
| roarings | 9 | - | - |
| roarming | 11 | - | - |
| roasters | 8 | - | - |
| sandsoap | 11 | - | - |
| seacoast | 10 | the shore of a sea or ocean | - |
| shedload | 13 | - | - |
| shipload | 14 | the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | - |
| shitload | 12 | - | - |
| sideroad | 10 | - | - |
| shoalest | 11 | - | - |
| shoalier | 11 | - | - |
| shoaling | 12 | - | - |
| skyboard | 18 | - | - |
| skoaling | 13 | - | - |
| soaplike | 14 | - | - |
| soaproot | 10 | - | - |
| soapsuds | 11 | the froth produced by soaps or detergents | - |
| soapwort | 13 | plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised | - |
| soaraway | 14 | - | - |
| soarings | 9 | - | - |
| soapless | 10 | - | - |
| soapland | 11 | - | - |
| soakages | 13 | - | - |
| soakaway | 18 | - | - |
| soakings | 13 | - | - |
| soapbark | 16 | - | - |
| soapiest | 10 | - | - |
| reloaded | 10 | - | - |
| reloader | 9 | - | - |
| reloaned | 9 | - | - |
| retroact | 10 | - | - |
| resoaked | 13 | - | - |
| parazoan | 19 | primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | - |
| peacoats | 12 | - | - |
| payloads | 14 | - | - |
| pegboard | 14 | a board perforated with regularly spaced holes into which pegs can be fitted | - |
| pigboats | 13 | - | - |
| poachier | 15 | - | - |
| poaceous | 12 | - | - |
| poachers | 15 | - | - |
| ploating | 11 | - | - |
| polyzoan | 22 | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | - |
| presoaks | 14 | - | - |
| preboard | 13 | - | - |
| preloads | 11 | - | - |
| reboards | 11 | - | - |
| refloats | 11 | - | - |
| rehoboam | 15 | - | - |
| redcoats | 11 | - | - |
| recoaled | 11 | - | - |
| recoated | 11 | - | - |
| overgoad | 13 | - | - |
| oversoak | 15 | - | - |
| outsoars | 8 | - | - |
| apoapses | 12 | - | - |
| apoapsis | 12 | (astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited | - |
| antifoam | 13 | - | - |
| armloads | 11 | - | - |
| bareboat | 12 | a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions | - |
| backload | 17 | - | - |
| becloaks | 16 | - | - |
| bedboard | 14 | - | - |
| benzoate | 19 | any salt or ester of benzoic acid | - |
| benthoal | 13 | - | - |
| begroans | 11 | - | - |
| befoamed | 16 | - | - |
| bemoaned | 13 | - | - |
| bemoaner | 12 | - | - |
| bioassay | 13 | appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard | - |
| bluecoat | 12 | a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor) | - |
| boatable | 12 | - | - |
| boatbill | 12 | tropical American heron related to night herons | - |
| boatfuls | 13 | - | - |
| boathook | 17 | - | - |
| boatings | 11 | - | - |
| boatlift | 13 | - | - |
| boatlike | 14 | - | - |
| boasters | 10 | - | - |
| boarders | 11 | - | - |
| boardmen | 13 | - | - |
| boarfish | 16 | fish with a projecting snout | - |
| boatneck | 16 | - | - |
| bobfloat | 15 | a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | - |
| boatsmen | 12 | - | - |
| boattail | 10 | - | - |
| bloaters | 10 | - | - |
| bloating | 11 | - | - |
| boxboard | 20 | - | - |
| bombload | 15 | - | - |
| broacher | 15 | - | - |
| broaches | 15 | - | - |
| broadaxe | 18 | a large ax with a broad cutting blade | - |
| broadens | 11 | - | - |
| broadest | 11 | - | - |
| broadish | 14 | - | - |
| bryozoan | 22 | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | - |
| busloads | 11 | - | - |
| bushgoat | 14 | - | - |
| bumboats | 14 | - | - |
| accoasts | 12 | - | - |
| aircoach | 15 | - | - |
| airboats | 10 | - | - |
| ectozoan | 19 | of or relating to epizoa | - |
| entozoal | 17 | - | - |
| entozoan | 17 | of or relating to entozoa | - |
| epizoans | 19 | - | - |
| faltboat | 13 | - | - |
| fireboat | 13 | a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront | - |
| floatage | 12 | - | - |
| floatant | 11 | - | - |
| floatcut | 13 | - | - |
| floatels | 11 | - | - |
| floaters | 11 | - | - |
| floatier | 11 | - | - |
| flyboats | 16 | - | - |
| flatboat | 13 | a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | - |
| foldboat | 14 | - | - |
| foamlike | 17 | - | - |
| foamless | 13 | - | - |
| foalfoot | 14 | - | - |
| foamable | 15 | - | - |
| foamiest | 13 | - | - |
| foamings | 14 | - | - |
| foyboats | 16 | - | - |
| garboard | 12 | the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship | - |
| funboard | 14 | - | - |
| doatings | 10 | - | - |
| dipnoans | 11 | - | - |
| disloads | 10 | - | - |
| groaners | 9 | - | - |
| groanful | 12 | - | - |
| groaning | 10 | - | - |
| gunboats | 11 | - | - |
| halloaed | 12 | - | - |
| highroad | 16 | a highway | - |
| hoptoads | 14 | - | - |
| hoasting | 12 | - | - |
| hoastman | 13 | - | - |
| hoastmen | 13 | - | - |
| hoatzins | 20 | - | - |
| hoarsest | 11 | - | - |
| hoarsens | 11 | - | - |
| hoactzin | 22 | crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | - |
| hoarders | 12 | - | - |
| hoarhead | 15 | - | - |
| hoariest | 11 | - | - |
| hilloaed | 12 | - | - |
| holloaed | 12 | - | - |
| hypoacid | 19 | - | - |
| iceboats | 12 | - | - |
| hulloaed | 12 | - | - |
| inboards | 11 | - | - |
| isoamyls | 13 | - | - |
| jeroboam | 19 | a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) | - |
| johnboat | 20 | - | - |
| keelboat | 14 | river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing | - |
| keitloas | 12 | - | - |
| lapboard | 13 | writing board used on the lap as a table or desk | - |
| goatiest | 9 | - | - |
| goatlike | 13 | - | - |
| goatling | 10 | - | - |
| goatweed | 13 | - | - |
| goatfish | 15 | brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | - |
| goadlike | 14 | - | - |
| goadsman | 12 | - | - |
| goadsmen | 12 | - | - |
| goadster | 10 | - | - |
| goalball | 11 | - | - |
| goalless | 9 | having no points scores | - |
| goalward | 13 | - | - |
| gloaters | 9 | - | - |
| logboard | 12 | - | - |
| maxicoat | 19 | - | - |
| metazoan | 19 | any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges | - |
| mesozoan | 19 | - | - |
| metazoal | 19 | - | - |
| monoacid | 13 | - | - |
| mopboard | 15 | a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor | - |
| moatlike | 14 | - | - |
| moanings | 11 | - | - |
| ologoans | 9 | - | - |
| offloads | 15 | - | - |
| onloaded | 10 | - | - |
| outfloat | 11 | - | - |
| outroars | 8 | - | - |
| outboast | 10 | - | - |
| outcoach | 15 | - | - |
| leeboard | 11 | - | - |
| loadened | 10 | - | - |
| loadings | 10 | - | - |
| loadstar | 9 | something that serves as a model or guide | - |
| loafings | 12 | - | - |
| loamiest | 10 | - | - |
| loamless | 10 | having no loam | a stony loamless yard |
| loanable | 10 | - | - |
| loanback | 16 | - | - |
| loanings | 9 | - | - |
| loanword | 12 | a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | - |
| loathers | 11 | - | - |
| loathest | 11 | - | - |
| loathful | 14 | - | - |
| chloasma | 15 | a tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives | - |
| cockboat | 18 | - | - |
| coalized | 20 | - | - |
| coappear | 14 | - | - |
| coapting | 13 | - | - |
| coarsely | 13 | in coarse pieces | the surfaces were coarsely granular |
| coarsens | 10 | - | - |
| coarsest | 10 | - | - |
| coarsish | 13 | - | - |
| coassist | 10 | - | - |
| coassume | 12 | - | - |
| coanchor | 15 | - | - |
| coamings | 13 | - | - |
| coalizes | 19 | - | - |
| coalless | 10 | - | - |
| coalpits | 12 | - | - |
| coalshed | 14 | - | - |
| coaltars | 10 | - | - |
| coalyard | 14 | - | - |
| coasters | 10 | - | - |
| coasting | 11 | - | - |
| coatings | 11 | - | - |
| coatless | 10 | - | - |
| coatrack | 16 | a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats | - |
| coattail | 10 | the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist | - |
| coattend | 11 | - | - |
| coattest | 10 | - | - |
| coalises | 10 | - | - |
| cloaking | 15 | - | - |
| coachdog | 17 | - | - |
| coachees | 15 | - | - |
| coachers | 15 | - | - |
| coachies | 15 | - | - |
| coagulum | 13 | a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | - |
| coalball | 12 | - | - |
| coalbins | 12 | - | - |
| coalfish | 16 | - | - |
| coalhole | 13 | a bin for holding coal | - |
| coaliest | 10 | - | - |
| coagents | 11 | - | - |
| coagency | 16 | - | - |
| coachmen | 17 | - | - |
| coacting | 13 | - | - |
| coaction | 12 | act of working jointly | - |
| coactive | 15 | - | - |
| coactors | 12 | - | - |
| coadmire | 13 | - | - |
| coadmits | 13 | - | - |
| coaevals | 13 | - | - |
| coalised | 11 | - | - |
| curacoas | 12 | - | - |
| croakers | 14 | - | - |
| croakier | 14 | - | - |
| croakily | 17 | - | - |
| damboard | 14 | - | - |
| defoamed | 15 | - | - |
| defoamer | 14 | - | - |
| cartroad | 11 | any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | - |
| catboats | 12 | - | - |
| caproate | 12 | - | - |
| carloads | 11 | - | - |
| roadmaps | 13 | - | - |
| zoariums | 19 | - | - |
| onboards | 11 | - | - |
| mailboat | 12 | a boat for carrying mail | - |
| maxiboat | 19 | - | - |
| loadable | 11 | - | - |
| roadhogs | 13 | - | - |
| roanpipe | 12 | - | - |
| roasties | 8 | - | - |
| sackload | 15 | - | - |
| seafoams | 13 | - | - |
| pinboard | 13 | - | - |
| dayboats | 14 | - | - |
| dustcoat | 11 | - | - |
| dishoard | 13 | - | - |
| docusoap | 13 | - | - |
| coachier | 15 | - | - |
| coaldust | 11 | - | - |
| coatlike | 14 | - | - |
| coaxings | 18 | - | - |
| feijoada | 19 | - | - |
| fishboat | 16 | - | - |
| gelcoats | 11 | - | - |
| foalings | 12 | - | - |
| toadlets | 9 | - | - |
| taihoaed | 12 | - | - |
| soapfish | 16 | fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America | - |
| soapdish | 14 | - | - |
| snocoach | 15 | - | - |
| windload | 13 | - | - |
| broasted | 11 | - | - |
| boardies | 11 | - | - |
| boatport | 12 | - | - |
| airboard | 11 | - | - |
| baseload | 11 | - | - |
| autoload | 9 | - | - |
