8-letter words containing c, a, m, p
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
- microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
- minicamp — A session run by a professional sports team to train particular players, or to test potential new players, before the main preseason training.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- pachmann — Vladimir de [vlad-uh-meer duh;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir de] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər də;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1933, Russian pianist.
- pacifism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- pangamic — relating to pangamy
- pascal-m — ["Pascal-m: A Language for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems", S. Abramsky et al in Distributed Computing Systems, Y. Paker et al eds, Academic Press 1986, pp. 163-189].
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- pemmican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
- pharmacy — Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
- pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
- placeman — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
- placemat — Placemats are mats that are put on a table before a meal for people to put their plates or bowls on.
- placemen — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
- placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- poematic — relating to or resembling poetry
- pow camp — Prisoner of War camp: a place where soldiers who have been captured by their enemy during a war are kept as prisoners until the end of the war
- proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- rampancy — a rampant condition or position.
- scalprum — a large scalpel
- scamping — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scampish — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- tympanic — pertaining or belonging to a tympanum.
- vampiric — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.