8-letter words containing p, a, c, e
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capuched — hooded
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- carapace — A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cei-pact — Central European Initiative on Parallel Computation.
- cell sap — the watery fluid within the central vacuole of a plant cell.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- 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.
- cephalus — the husband of Procris.
- champers — Champers is champagne.
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.
- chapeaux — a hat.
- chapelet — A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.
- chapelry — the district legally assigned to and served by an Anglican chapel
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chapless — lacking a lower jaw
- chaplets — Plural form of chaplet.
- chappell — Greg(ory Stephen). born 1948, Australian cricketer: played in 87 test matches (1970–84); first Australian to score over 7000 test runs
- chappies — Plural form of chappie.
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- chase up — If you chase up something that is needed or needs dealing with, you find it or find out what is being done about it.
- cheapens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheapen.
- cheapest — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- cheapish — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- chippage — the fact or an instance of chipping: The pottery could not be insured against chippage.
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- clampers — Plural form of clamper.
- clap-net — a net, used esp by entomologists, that can be closed instantly by pulling a string
- clappers — Plural form of clapper.
- claspers — a paired organ of male insects, used to clasp the female during copulation
- claspeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clasp.