8-letter words containing p, a, e
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- e-piracy — the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- earflaps — Plural form of earflap.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- earpiece — a piece that covers or passes over the ear, as on a cap or eyeglasses.
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthpea — the peanut.
- eaten up — food: finished
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- echappee — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and proceeding by a skip.
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elaphine — relating to or resembling a red deer
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- empacket — to wrap up
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- empanada — A Spanish or Latin American pastry turnover filled with a variety of savory ingredients and baked or fried.
- empanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empanel.
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- emphases — Plural form of emphasis.
- emphasis — Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- emplaced — Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.
- empyreal — Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean; celestial; sublime; exalted.
- empyrean — Belonging to or deriving from heaven.
- 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).
- endpaper — A blank or decorated leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- endplays — Plural form of endplay.
- engrasps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrasp.
- enplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of enplane.
- enplanes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enplane.
- ensample — (obsolete) To exemplify, to show by example.
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- epagogic — relating to inductive reasoning
- epanodos — a return to main theme after a digression
- epaulets — Plural form of epaulet.
- ependyma — (anatomy) A thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord.
- ephemera — Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time.
- ephesian — of or relating to Ephesus
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epiblast — The outermost layer of an embryo before it differentiates into ectoderm and mesoderm.
- epically — In an epic manner.