8-letter words containing c, a, p, i, t
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- epitaxic — relating to epitaxy
- epitheca — (microbiology, planktology) The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- escapist — Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy.
- flatpick — a plectrum
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- haptical — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
- hepatica — any plant belonging to the genus Hepatica, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and delicate purplish, pink, or white flowers.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- occipita — Plural form of occiput.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- pacation — the act of making peace
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- panoptic — permitting the viewing of all parts or elements: a panoptic stain used in microscopy; a panoptic aerial photograph of an enemy missile base.
- panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- patience — a female given name.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patricia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “patrician.”.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- petechia — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phthalic — of or derived from phthalic acid.
- picrated — containing picrate
- pictural — a picture
- pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
- piscator — fisherman.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.