8-letter words containing e, l, p
- asphodel — any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
- asplenia — Absence of normal spleen function.
- axle cap — a cap that covers the end of an axle
- axle-pin — a pin that holds an axle in place
- b-sample — a urine or blood sample used in doping tests in professional sports to confirm or invalidate the presence of banned substances in the first sample, the A-sample
- baldpate — a person with a bald head
- beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
- bedimple — to form dimples in
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- beerpull — the handle of a beer pump.
- bell lap — the final lap in a race of repeated circuits, signaled by the ringing of a bell.
- bellpull — a handle or rope that is pulled to ring a bell
- bellpush — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- belly up — If a company goes belly up, it does not have enough money to pay its debts.
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- bepimple — form pimples on
- beplumed — decorated with feathers
- bepommel — to beat vigorously
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- bleeping — (used as a substitute word for one regarded as objectionable): Get that bleeping cat out of here!
- blipvert — a very short television advertisement
- blowpipe — a long tube from which pellets, poisoned darts, etc, are shot by blowing
- boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bull pen — Baseball. a place where relief pitchers warm up during a game. the relief pitchers on a team.
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliope — a steam organ
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
- capeline — a cap-shaped bandage for covering either the head or an amputation stump
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capellet — a swelling on a horse's elbow, or on the heel of the hock, resembling a wen
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- cell sap — the watery fluid within the central vacuole of a plant cell.
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
- cephalic — of or relating to the head
- cephalin — a phospholipid, similar to lecithin, that occurs in the nerve tissue and brain
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.