8-letter words containing p, a, i, s
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campinas — a city in SE Brazil, in São Paulo state: centre of a rich agricultural region, producing esp coffee. Pop: 2 640 000 (2005 est)
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- capiases — Plural form of capias.
- capitals — Plural form of capital.
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capsicin — a liquid or resin extracted from capsicum
- capsicum — Capsicums are peppers.
- capsidal — forming a capsid, or relating to capsids
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsize.
- captains — Plural form of captain.
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- chapatis — Plural form of chapati.
- chappies — Plural form of chappie.
- cheapish — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- clanship — an association of families under the leadership of a chieftain
- clasping — (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- cuspidal — of, like, or having a cusp; cuspidate.
- daphnias — Plural form of daphnia.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despisal — contempt; the act of despising; scorn
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- diphasic — having two phases; two-phase.
- diplomas — Plural form of diploma.
- disapply — (transitive, legal) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.
- dishpans — Plural form of dishpan.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.