8-letter words containing p, c, e
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- overcrop — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- oxpecker — either of two African starlings of the genus Buphagus, characterized by their habit of riding on large, wild animals and domestic cattle to feed on ticks.
- p-celtic — the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound became a p -sound. Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Gaulish belong to P-Celtic.
- 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
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- panacean — a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.
- pancetta — Italian pork belly cured with salt, pepper, and other spices and air-dried up to four months, tightly rolled in a cylinder.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parcener — a joint heir; coheir.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- pastance — an activity that passes time; recreation
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathspec — pathname
- patience — a female given name.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- pb cache — Pipeline Burst Cache
- pc-tiles — (language) A visual programming language.
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- pea coat — A pea coat or a pea jacket is a short, double-breasted overcoat made of wool and worn especially by sailors.
- pea crab — any of several tiny crabs of the family Pinnotheridae, the female of which lives as a commensal in the shells of bivalve mollusks.
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peacenet — One of the IGC networks. PeaceNet serves peace and social justice advocates around the world in such areas as human rights, disarmament, and international relations. A number of alternative news services provide a range of information about these and other topics from around the world. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://igc.apc.org/.
- peacenik — an activist or demonstrator who opposes war and military intervention; pacifist.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.