8-letter words containing c, a, r, p, i
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- e-piracy — the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material.
- earpiece — a piece that covers or passes over the ear, as on a cap or eyeglasses.
- epicarps — Plural form of epicarp.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- hairclip — A clip to hold back the hair.
- hipparch — (in ancient Greece) a cavalry commander
- 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.
- maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- 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.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parochin — a parish
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- 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.”.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- pericarp — the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit, sometimes consisting of three layers, the epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- picarian — a bird belonging to the picariae division of birds, which is extensive and includes woodpeckers, toucans and kingfishers among many more
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- 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.
- picrated — containing picrate
- pictural — a picture
- pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- pirarucu — the arapaima.
- piscator — fisherman.
- pitcairn — British island in Polynesia, in the South Pacific: 1.8 sq mi (4.6 sq km); pop. 54
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praecipe — any of various legal writs commanding a defendant to do something or to appear and show why it should not be done.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.