8-letter words containing c, p, l
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
- opuscule — a small or minor work.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- p-celtic — the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound became a p -sound. Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Gaulish belong to P-Celtic.
- pace lap — a lap before the beginning of an auto race for warming up the engines and giving the field a moving start.
- pachalic — pashalik.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- 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].
- pascal-p — (language) The variant of Pascal used by the UCSD p-system environment. Pascal-P has extended string and array operations, random-access files and separate compilation. It uses P-code intermediate code and is available from Pecan.
- pascal-s — Simplified Pascal. June, 1975. A strict subset of Pascal, omits scalar types, subranges, sets, files, pointers, packed structures, 'with' and 'goto. Source for a complete Pascal-S compiler is in "Pascal-S: A Subset and Its Implementation", N. Wirth in Pascal - The Language and Its Implementation, by D.W. Barron, Wiley 1979.
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pc-tiles — (language) A visual programming language.
- pci slot — (hardware) A connector on Peripheral Component Interconnect and the associated physical space occupied by the installed PCI card.
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peccable — liable to sin or error.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
- peduncle — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- pellicle — a thin skin or membrane; film; scum.
- pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
- penoncel — pencel.
- pentacle — pentagram.