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8-letter words containing a, p, r, e

  • capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
  • capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
  • capework — the use of the cape by the matador
  • capmaker — a person who makes caps
  • capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
  • caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
  • caprices — Plural form of caprice.
  • caprines — Plural form of caprine.
  • capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
  • capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
  • caproate — a salt of caproic acid
  • capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
  • captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
  • capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
  • captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
  • carapace — A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
  • carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
  • carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
  • carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
  • carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
  • cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
  • cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
  • champers — Champers is champagne.
  • chapelry — the district legally assigned to and served by an Anglican chapel
  • chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
  • chapiter — the capital of a column
  • chapters — Plural form of chapter.
  • chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
  • clampers — Plural form of clamper.
  • clappers — Plural form of clapper.
  • claspers — a paired organ of male insects, used to clasp the female during copulation
  • clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
  • coappear — to appear jointly
  • 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.
  • comparer — One who, or that which, compares.
  • compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
  • coparent — a fellow parent
  • copperah — copra.
  • copperas — ferrous sulfate
  • copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
  • copyread — to subedit
  • crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
  • crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
  • crappies — Plural form of crappie.
  • crapplet — (web, abuse)   A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
  • creampie — Alternative spelling of cream pie.
  • creepage — a slow and gradual movement
  • crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
  • crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
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