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8-letter words containing a, r, p

  • 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.
  • clip art — a large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer from which items can be selected for incorporation into documents
  • coalport — a white translucent bone china having richly coloured moulded patterns, made in the 19th century at Coalport near Shrewsbury
  • 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.
  • comparsa — a song and folk dance of Cuba.
  • coparent — a fellow parent
  • copastor — a fellow pastor
  • copatron — a fellow patron
  • coplanar — lying in the same plane
  • copperah — copra.
  • copperas — ferrous sulfate
  • copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
  • coprosma — any shrub of the Australasian rubiaceous genus Coprosma: sometimes planted for ornament
  • copyread — to subedit
  • corporal — A corporal is a non-commissioned officer in the army or United States Marines.
  • corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
  • cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
  • crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
  • crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
  • cramping — cramp iron.
  • crampons — Plural form of crampon.
  • crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
  • crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
  • crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
  • crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
  • crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
  • crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
  • 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.
  • crapplet — (web, abuse)   A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
  • crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
  • damp-dry — (of something, such as a garment, that has been drying) nearly dry but still damp
  • dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
  • dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
  • day trip — A day trip is a journey to a place and back again on the same day, usually for pleasure.
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