8-letter words containing a, c, l, e, p
- coppelia — a ballet (1870) by Délibes.
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- copyable — able to be copied
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- emplaced — Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.
- epically — In an epic manner.
- epicalyx — (botany) A group of bracts resembling a calyx.
- epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
- escallop — A scallop shell as a charge.
- escalope — A thin slice of meat without any bone, typically a special cut of veal from the leg that is coated, fried, and served in a sauce.
- especial — Better or greater than usual; special.
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- facepalm — the gesture of placing the palm of one's hand across the face, as to express embarrassment, frustration, disbelief, etc. (often used as an interjection): She read the post and comments and did a facepalm. Okay, that was dumb—facepalm!
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- impleach — to intertwine
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lapdance — Alternative spelling of lap dance.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- pace lap — a lap before the beginning of an auto race for warming up the engines and giving the field a moving start.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peccable — liable to sin or error.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb