8-letter words containing p, a, e
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- operator — a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- operetta — a short opera, usually of a light and amusing character.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.
- optimate — a Roman aristocrat
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overheap — to supply too much
- overleap — to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overpaid — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overpark — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- overpart — to give (an actor) too difficult a role
- overpass — a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
- overplan — to plan excessively
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- oxazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 1 5 H 1 1 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.
- p marker — phrase marker.
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pace car — (in auto racing) an automobile that leads the competing cars through a pace lap or laps and leaves the course before the actual start of the race.
- pace lap — a lap before the beginning of an auto race for warming up the engines and giving the field a moving start.
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- pacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- pack ice — a large area of floating ice formed over a period of many years and consisting of pieces of ice driven together by wind, current, etc.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- paganize — to make pagan.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pageview — one viewing of a web page; a single visit: Tracking pageviews is a way of predicting the advertising potential of a website.
- paginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- pahoehoe — basaltic lava having a smooth or billowy surface.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- painture — the art or act of painting