8-letter words containing a, p, r, i
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- 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.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- 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.
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.
- carpalia — any of the bones of the wrist.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chip art — microchip art
- clip art — a large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer from which items can be selected for incorporation into documents
- copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
- cramping — cramp iron.
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- creampie — Alternative spelling of cream pie.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- day trip — A day trip is a journey to a place and back again on the same day, usually for pleasure.
- day-trip — to travel as a day-tripper.
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dispread — to spread out
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- e-piracy — the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earpiece — a piece that covers or passes over the ear, as on a cap or eyeglasses.
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.