8-letter words containing n, p
- cleanups — Plural form of cleanup.
- clip-ons — sunglasses designed to be clipped on to a person's spectacles
- clipping — A clipping is an article, picture, or advertisement that has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
- clomping — Present participle of clomp.
- clopping — a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- clumping — a small, close group or cluster, especially of trees or other plants.
- colophon — a publisher's emblem on a book
- compania — company.
- companie — Obsolete spelling of company.
- compends — Plural form of compend.
- compense — (obsolete) To compensate.
- complain — to make an accusation; bring a formal charge
- compline — the last of the seven canonical hours of the divine office
- compound — A compound is an enclosed area of land that is used for a particular purpose.
- comprint — to print jointly
- compunct — (obsolete) Affected with compunction; remorseful.
- concepts — a general notion or idea; conception.
- conepati — hog-nosed skunk (def 2).
- conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
- conspire — If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it.
- consumpt — expenditure on goods and services for personal use
- contempo — contemporary
- contempt — If you have contempt for someone or something, you have no respect for them or think that they are unimportant.
- coopting — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- cooption — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- copperon — cupferron.
- coprince — a fellow prince
- cornpipe — a musical instrument made from a stalk of corn
- cornpone — cornbread, esp a plain type made with water
- corpsing — Present participle of corpse.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corpsmen — U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- count up — add, total
- couperin — François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- coupling — A coupling is a device which is used to join two vehicles or pieces of equipment together.
- couponer — a person who seeks out or saves discount coupons, as for buying grocery items.
- cow pony — a horse used by cowboys when herding
- 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.
- creeping — (of a plant) having a stem that grows horizontally along the ground and throws out roots at intervals
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot