8-letter words containing a, c, r, p
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praecipe — any of various legal writs commanding a defendant to do something or to appear and show why it should not be done.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
- precaval — See under vena cava.
- preclean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- preclear — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- preplace — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- protocal — (spelling) It's spelled "protocol".
- protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
- rampancy — a rampant condition or position.
- rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapidcad — (processor) A specially packaged Intel 486DX and a dummy floating point unit (FPU) designed as pin-compatible replacements for an Intel 80386 processor and 80387 FPU. Since the DX variant has a working on-chip FPU, a dummy FPU package is supplied to go in the 387 FPU socket.
- rat pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rat-pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rate-cap — In Britain, when a local council was rate-capped, the government prevented it from increasing local taxes called rates, in order to force the council to reduce its spending or make it more efficient.
- reaccept — to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal.
- recapped — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- recaptor — someone who recaptures something that had been taken
- recarpet — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- repacify — to pacify again
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replicar — a custom-made or individually produced automobile whose body is a copy of a vintage or classic automobile.
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- root cap — the loose mass of epidermal cells covering the apex of most roots, serving to protect the meristematic cells behind it.
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- sarpanch — the head of a panchayat
- scalprum — a large scalpel
- scapular — of or relating to the shoulders or the scapula or scapulae.
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.