8-letter words containing a, d, p
- baldpate — a person with a bald head
- bandpass — (of a filter) transmitting only a set range of frequencies.
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- cape cod — a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capeweed — a low-growing, creeping plant, Arctotheca calendulacea, used as a ground cover in warm climates.
- capsidal — forming a capsid, or relating to capsids
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capuched — hooded
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- compadre — a male friend
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- copyread — to subedit
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- 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.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cuspidal — of, like, or having a cusp; cuspidate.
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- damp box — a box that is lined with moist material for keeping clay in a plastic state.
- damp off — (of plants, seedlings, shoots, etc) to be affected by damping off
- damp-dry — (of something, such as a garment, that has been drying) nearly dry but still damp
- dampened — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- daphnias — Plural form of daphnia.
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- dappling — Present participle of dapple.
- dashpots — Plural form of dashpot.