8-letter words containing c, o, a, p
- epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
- escallop — A scallop shell as a charge.
- escalope — A thin slice of meat without any bone, typically a special cut of veal from the leg that is coated, fried, and served in a sauce.
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- exocarps — Plural form of exocarp.
- foolscap — a type of inexpensive writing paper, especially legal-size, lined, yellow sheets, bound in tablet form.
- footpace — walking pace.
- gazpacho — a soup made of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, oil, and vinegar, and served cold.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- glooscap — (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- japonica — the camellia, Camellia japonica, having waxy flowers in a variety of colors.
- kickapoo — a river in SW Wisconsin, flowing SSW to the Wisconsin River. 130 miles (210 km) long.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- loopback — The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- 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.
- monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- occipita — Plural form of occiput.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
- octapody — (in poetic metre) a line, stanza, or piece of poetic writing that contains eight feet
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- 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.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto