8-letter words containing i, p, r
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainpan — the skull
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- 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.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.
- carpalia — any of the bones of the wrist.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chip art — microchip art
- chippers — to chirp or twitter.
- chirpier — Comparative form of chirpy.
- chirpily — In a chirpy way.
- chirping — high pitched, repeated noises
- chirrups — Plural form of chirrup.
- chirrupy — chirpy; cheerful.
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- 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
- clip art — a large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer from which items can be selected for incorporation into documents
- clippers — a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- compiler — A compiler is someone who compiles books, reports, or lists of information.
- complier — a person who complies
- comprint — to print jointly
- comprise — If you say that something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, you mean it has them as its parts or members.
- comprize — comprise.
- conspire — If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it.
- copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.