8-letter words containing a, c, p, u
- cleanups — Plural form of cleanup.
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- copiague — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- culpably — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cuspidal — of, like, or having a cusp; cuspidate.
- docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- half-cup — half of a cup, equal to 4 fluid ounces (0.1 liter) or 8 tablespoons.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- match up — pair
- match-up — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- parcours — parcourse.
- patch up — an act or instance of patching or repair.
- patch-up — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)