8-letter words containing a, p, t, e
- mag tape — a magnetic tape used for recording data.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- meat pie — pastry containing meat
- meneptah — Merneptah.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- nametape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
- netspeak — internet jargon
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- omoplate — the shoulder blade
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- operator — a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator.
- operetta — a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.
- optimate — a Roman aristocrat
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- overpart — to give (an actor) too difficult a role
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- paginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.
- pallette — palette (def 8).
- palliate — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palmated — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
- palmette — a conventionalized shape in the form of palmately spread leaves or sections, used as ornamentation. Compare anthemion, lotus (def 5).
- palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- palpated — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.