8-letter words containing a, t, p
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- dupattas — Plural form of dupatta.
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- dustpans — Plural form of dustpan.
- dyspathy — antipathy.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthpea — the peanut.
- eaten up — food: finished
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- empacket — to wrap up
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- epaulets — Plural form of epaulet.
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epiblast — The outermost layer of an embryo before it differentiates into ectoderm and mesoderm.
- epilator — An electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.
- epinasty — (botany) the downward curvature of leaves etc due to differential growth rates.
- epitaphs — Plural form of epitaph.
- epitases — Plural form of epitasis.
- epitasis — (ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins.
- epitaxic — relating to epitaxy
- epitheca — (microbiology, planktology) The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- epithema — a horny outgrowth on the beaks of birds
- escapist — Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy.
- ethercap — a spider
- ethiopia — country in East Africa
- ettercap — a spider
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- ex parte — (of an application in a judicial proceeding) on behalf of one side or party only
- expiated — Simple past tense and past participle of expiate.
- expiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expiate.
- expiator — One who makes expiation or atonement.
- expirant — a person who expires
- explants — Plural form of explant.
- eyepatch — A patch worn to protect an injured eye.
- fat camp — a residential camp at which children undergo a programme of exercise, diet change, etc, intended to help them lose weight
- fat pine — lightwood.
- fate map — a diagram or series of diagrams indicating the later structures or adult parts that develop from specific regions of an embryo or egg cortex.
- firetrap — a building that, because of its age, material, structure, or the like, is especially dangerous in case of fire.
- flat cap — A flat cap is the same as a cloth cap.
- flat top — an aircraft carrier.
- flat-top — an aircraft carrier.