8-letter words containing a, c, p, s
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- hispanic — Spanish.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icescape — a landscape covered with ice or with snow and ice: the limitless icescapes of Antarctica.
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- knapsack — a canvas, nylon, or leather bag for clothes, food, and other supplies, carried on the back by soldiers, hikers, etc.
- kneecaps — Plural form of kneecap.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use
- manscape — A view of a group of people.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- pacifism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- packsack — a leather or canvas carrying bag, usually one that can be strapped over the shoulder and used to carry food and personal items when a person is traveling.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parcours — parcourse.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- pascal-m — ["Pascal-m: A Language for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems", S. Abramsky et al in Distributed Computing Systems, Y. Paker et al eds, Academic Press 1986, pp. 163-189].
- pascal-p — (language) The variant of Pascal used by the UCSD p-system environment. Pascal-P has extended string and array operations, random-access files and separate compilation. It uses P-code intermediate code and is available from Pecan.
- pascal-s — Simplified Pascal. June, 1975. A strict subset of Pascal, omits scalar types, subranges, sets, files, pointers, packed structures, 'with' and 'goto. Source for a complete Pascal-S compiler is in "Pascal-S: A Subset and Its Implementation", N. Wirth in Pascal - The Language and Its Implementation, by D.W. Barron, Wiley 1979.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- pastance — an activity that passes time; recreation
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathspec — pathname
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- piscator — fisherman.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.