8-letter words containing n, a, p
- champion — A champion is someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight.
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- chaplain — A chaplain is a member of the Christian clergy who does religious work in a place such as a hospital, school, prison, or in the armed forces.
- chapping — Present participle of chap.
- cheapens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheapen.
- chinampa — an artificially created island used for growing crops in Mexican or in Mesoamerican agriculture
- chip pan — a deep pan for frying potato chips, etc
- clamping — the immobilization of a car or other vehicle by means of a wheel clamp
- clanship — an association of families under the leadership of a chieftain
- clap-net — a net, used esp by entomologists, that can be closed instantly by pulling a string
- clapping — to strike the palms of (one's hands) against one another resoundingly, and usually repeatedly, especially to express approval: She clapped her hands in appreciation.
- clasping — (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.
- claypans — Plural form of claypan.
- 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.
- compania — company.
- companie — Obsolete spelling of company.
- complain — to make an accusation; bring a formal charge
- conepati — hog-nosed skunk (def 2).
- conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- cramping — cramp iron.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- dampened — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- daphnias — Plural form of daphnia.
- dappling — Present participle of dapple.
- data pen — a device for reading or scanning magnetically coded data on labels, packets, etc
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- de plano — without argument.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- denpasar — seaport in S Bali, Indonesia: pop. 261,000