8-letter words containing a, r, p
- attercop — a spider
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autoharp — a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
- backdrop — A backdrop is a large piece of cloth, often with scenery painted on it, that is hung at the back of a stage while a play is being performed.
- backport — (software) To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
- backwrap — anything that can be wrapped around the back to provide back support or relieve back pain
- bad trip — a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.
- bagpiper — a person who plays the bagpipes
- ballpark — A ballpark is a park or stadium where baseball is played.
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- baptizer — someone who baptises
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- barspoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- bear paw — a type of small round snowshoe
- bear pit — a place, such as parliament or the stock market ,where there are a lot of aggressive, argumentative and competitive people
- beartrap — A large trap used to catch a bear, usually as a foot trap.
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- becarpet — to lay carpet on
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
- bhatpara — a city in NE India, in West Bengal on the Hooghly River: jute and cotton mills. Pop: 441 956 (2001)
- bi-party — representing two distinct parties: a biparty investigating committee.
- biograph — a biographical summary
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainpan — the skull
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- calcspar — calcite
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- camp car — a railroad car used as a dormitory for construction and maintenance workers.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc