7-letter words containing p, a, e
- chapmen — Plural form of chapman.
- chapped — If your skin is chapped, it is dry, cracked, and sore.
- chappel — (dated, 17-18th C.) alternative spelling of chapel.
- chappie — chap2 (def 1).
- chapter — A chapter is one of the parts that a book is divided into. Each chapter has a number, and sometimes a title.
- charpie — a piece of lint used to make a surgical dressing
- cheapen — If something cheapens a person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
- cheaper — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- cheapie — cheap
- cheaply — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- clamped — Simple past tense and past participle of clamp.
- clamper — a spiked metal frame fastened to the sole of a shoe to prevent slipping on ice
- clapped — 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.
- clapper — a person or thing that claps
- clasped — a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing: a clasp for paper money; a clasp on a necklace.
- clasper — a person or thing that clasps.
- cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
- coapted — to bring close together: The surgeons coapted the edges of the wound.
- compane — (obsolete) To associate with.
- compare — When you compare things, you consider them and discover the differences or similarities between them.
- compear — to appear in court
- copehan — Wintun.
- copulae — Plural form of copula.
- coupage — The blending (or 'cutting') of wine.
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- cramper — a spiked metal plate used as a brace for the feet in throwing the stone
- crampet — a cramp iron
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapper — a toilet
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crapple — (obsolete) A claw.
- craptex — /krap'tekh/ (University of York, England) Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else). The non-TeX enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e.g. troff) and because (particularly if the standard Computer Modern fonts are used) it generates vast output files. See religious issues.
- cupcake — Cupcakes are small iced cakes for one person.
- cuphead — a hemispherical bolt-head
- cuprate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCumOn, many of which are superconductors.
- cuspate — having a cusp or cusps
- cypsela — the dry one-seeded fruit of the daisy and related plants, which resembles an achene but is surrounded by a calyx sheath
- dampens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dampen.
- dampers — Plural form of damper.
- dampest — Superlative form of damp Most damp.
- dampier — William. 1652–1715, English navigator, pirate, and writer: sailed around the world twice
- dapifer — The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
- dappled — You use dappled to describe something that has dark or light patches on it, or that is made up of patches of light and shade.
- dapples — Plural form of dapple.
- dapsone — an antimicrobial drug used to treat leprosy and certain types of dermatitis. Formula: C12H12N2O2S
- deadpan — Deadpan humour is when you appear to be serious and are hiding the fact that you are joking or teasing someone.
- decamps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decamp.
- decapod — any crustacean of the mostly marine order Decapoda, having five pairs of walking limbs: includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, and crayfish
- dectape — (hardware, storage) A reel of magnetic tape about 4 inches in diameter and one inch wide. Unlike today's macrotapes, microtape drivers allowed random access to the data, and therefore could be used to support file systems and even for swapping (this was generally done purely for hack value, as they were far too slow for practical use). DECtape was a variant on LINCtape. In their heyday DECtapes were used in pretty much the same ways one would now use a floppy disk: as a small, portable way to save and transport files and programs.
- delapse — a falling or sinking down