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8-letter words containing p, c, e

  • leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
  • leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
  • linctape — (storage)   A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
  • lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
  • lipocyte — fat cell.
  • lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
  • logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
  • lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
  • lycopene — a red crystalline substance, C 40 H 56 , that is the main pigment of certain fruits, as the tomato and paprika, and is a precursor to carotene in plant biosynthesis.
  • manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
  • manscape — A view of a group of people.
  • megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
  • mephitic — offensive to the smell.
  • mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
  • mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
  • mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
  • messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
  • midspace — an area between two celestial objects
  • misplace — to put in a wrong place.
  • misprice — To price incorrectly or unsuitably.
  • misspace — to space out wrongly
  • muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
  • myoscope — an instrument for observing muscular contraction.
  • necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
  • nectopod — (in certain mollusks) an appendage modified for swimming.
  • nepionic — of or relating to the juvenile period in the life cycle of an organism
  • netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
  • newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
  • occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • occupier — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • octopole — (physics) A multipole configuration with eight equal charges arranged in a circular pattern.
  • octuples — Plural form of octuple.
  • octuplet — a group, series, or combination of eight related items.
  • octuplex — relating to a form of telegraphy in which eight communications can be sent along one wire at the same time
  • opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • open cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • open-cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
  • opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • opificer — someone who makes something; a craftsman
  • opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
  • opuscule — a small or minor work.
  • otoscope — an instrument for examining the external canal and tympanic membrane of the ear.
  • outcaper — to exceed in capering
  • outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
  • outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
  • outplace — to provide outplacement for.
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