8-letter words containing a, d, p, c
- docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- emplaced — Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.
- encamped — Simple past tense and past participle of encamp.
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- escapade — An act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure.
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- handclap — a clapping of the hands.
- handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lapdance — Alternative spelling of lap dance.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- octapody — (in poetic metre) a line, stanza, or piece of poetic writing that contains eight feet
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- pacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- picrated — containing picrate
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- placated — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placidly — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place