8-letter words containing p, c, e
- fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fippence — fivepence
- flyspeck — a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly.
- footpace — walking pace.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geoponic — of or relating to tillage or agriculture; agricultural.
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter
- hencoops — Plural form of hencoop.
- henpecks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of henpeck.
- hepatica — any plant belonging to the genus Hepatica, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and delicate purplish, pink, or white flowers.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- hepcidin — A hormone produced by the liver that regulates iron homeostasis in mammals.
- heptarch — A heptarchist.
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- hiccuped — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccup.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- hyphenic — relating to a hyphen
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- i expect — You say 'I expect' to suggest that a statement is probably correct, or a natural consequence of the present situation, although you have no definite knowledge.
- ice pack — pack ice.
- ice pick — a sharp-pointed tool for chipping or cutting ice.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icescape — a landscape covered with ice or with snow and ice: the limitless icescapes of Antarctica.
- icy pole — an ice cream or water ice on a stick
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- impleach — to intertwine
- impocket — to put in a pocket
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- incepted — to take in; ingest.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- incorpse — to incorporate
- inspects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inspect.
- iphicles — a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.
- iriscope — an instrument that displays the prismatic colours, consisting of a polished black glass which is breathed upon via a tube
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- juice up — the natural fluid, fluid content, or liquid part that can be extracted from a plant or one of its parts, especially of a fruit: orange juice.
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kinepock — (obsolete) cowpox.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- kneecaps — Plural form of kneecap.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lapdance — Alternative spelling of lap dance.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use