8-letter words containing p, a, e
- bear paw — a type of small round snowshoe
- bear pit — a place, such as parliament or the stock market ,where there are a lot of aggressive, argumentative and competitive people
- beartrap — A large trap used to catch a bear, usually as a foot trap.
- beaucoup — a large amount, an abundance
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- becarpet — to lay carpet on
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- behappen — to befall
- bell lap — the final lap in a race of repeated circuits, signaled by the ringing of a bell.
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
- bethpage — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- cake pan — A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliope — a steam organ
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- camp pie — tinned meat
- campagne — a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
- campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
- campeche — a state of SE Mexico, on the SW of the Yucatán peninsula: forestry and fishing. Capital: Campeche. Pop: 205 000 (2005 est). Area: 56 114 sq km (21 666 sq miles)
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphane — a terpene hyrdocarbon, C10H18, that is both saturated and inert
- camphene — a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C10H16
- camphine — rectified oil of turpentine
- camphire — henna
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campmate — Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.