8-letter words containing c, e, p
- chase up — If you chase up something that is needed or needs dealing with, you find it or find out what is being done about it.
- cheapens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheapen.
- cheapest — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- cheapish — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- check up — If you check up on something, you find out information about it.
- checkups — Plural form of checkup.
- cheeping — Present participle of cheep.
- cheer up — When you cheer up or when something cheers you up, you stop feeling depressed and become more cheerful.
- cheliped — (of an arthropod) either of two legs which each carry a claw
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- chephren — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chicopee — city in SW Mass., on the Connecticut River: pop. 55,000
- chip set — (hardware) A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an IBM PC.
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- chippage — the fact or an instance of chipping: The pottery could not be insured against chippage.
- chippers — to chirp or twitter.
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- chippies — Plural form of chippy.
- chipsets — Plural form of chipset.
- chirpier — Comparative form of chirpy.
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppers — teeth
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- cineplex — a large cinema complex
- ciphered — Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.
- cipherer — a person who ciphers
- cirriped — any of a class (Cirripedia) of saltwater crustaceans that are attached or parasitic as adults, including the barnacles and the rhizocephalans
- clampers — Plural form of clamper.
- clap-net — a net, used esp by entomologists, that can be closed instantly by pulling a string
- clappers — Plural form of clapper.
- claspers — a paired organ of male insects, used to clasp the female during copulation
- claspeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clasp.
- clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- clean-up — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleanups — Plural form of cleanup.
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- clippers — a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
- clippies — Plural form of clippie.
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clodpole — a dull or stupid person
- close up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
- close-up — the end or conclusion: at the close of day; the close of the speech.
- closeups — Plural form of closeup.