8-letter words containing p, a, c, e
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- e-piracy — the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material.
- earpiece — a piece that covers or passes over the ear, as on a cap or eyeglasses.
- echappee — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and proceeding by a skip.
- empacket — to wrap up
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- emplaced — Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.
- encamped — Simple past tense and past participle of encamp.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- epagogic — relating to inductive reasoning
- epically — In an epic manner.
- epicalyx — (botany) A group of bracts resembling a calyx.
- epicarps — Plural form of epicarp.
- epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
- epigamic — attractive to the opposite sex
- epitaxic — relating to epitaxy
- epitheca — (microbiology, planktology) The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- escallop — A scallop shell as a charge.
- escalope — A thin slice of meat without any bone, typically a special cut of veal from the leg that is coated, fried, and served in a sauce.
- escapade — An act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure.
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- escapees — Plural form of escapee.
- escapers — Plural form of escaper.
- escaping — Present participle of escape.
- escapism — The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.
- escapist — Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy.
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- especial — Better or greater than usual; special.
- ethercap — a spider
- ettercap — a spider
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- exocarps — Plural form of exocarp.
- eyepatch — A patch worn to protect an injured eye.
- facepalm — the gesture of placing the palm of one's hand across the face, as to express embarrassment, frustration, disbelief, etc. (often used as an interjection): She read the post and comments and did a facepalm. Okay, that was dumb—facepalm!
- footpace — walking pace.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- hepatica — any plant belonging to the genus Hepatica, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and delicate purplish, pink, or white flowers.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heptarch — A heptarchist.
- ice pack — pack ice.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icescape — a landscape covered with ice or with snow and ice: the limitless icescapes of Antarctica.
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- impleach — to intertwine