8-letter words containing p, c, e
- pulicene — flea-ridden
- pulicide — a flea-killing substance
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- pumicite — a fine-grained pumice-like volcanic ash
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punctate — marked with points or dots; having minute spots or depressions.
- punctule — a very small opening
- puncture — the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object.
- pungency — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
- rate-cap — In Britain, when a local council was rate-capped, the government prevented it from increasing local taxes called rates, in order to force the council to reduce its spending or make it more efficient.
- re-price — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- reaccept — to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal.
- recapped — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- recaptor — someone who recaptures something that had been taken
- recarpet — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- receipts — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- receptor — Physiology. an end organ or a group of end organs of sensory or afferent neurons, specialized to be sensitive to stimulating agents, as touch or heat.
- recouped — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- recouple — to couple (two people or things) again; reunite
- reoccupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- repacify — to pacify again
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replicar — a custom-made or individually produced automobile whose body is a copy of a vintage or classic automobile.
- replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.
- repriced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- rescript — a written answer, as of a Roman emperor or a pope, to a query or petition in writing.
- resculpt — to sculpt again
- respects — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
- resplice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- sapience — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
- saucepot — a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
- scale up — increase in size
- scalepan — scale2 (def 2).
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- sceptred — to give a scepter to; invest with authority.
- schepisi — Fred, full name Frederick Alan Schepisi. born 1939, Australian film director. His films include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Last Orders (2001), and The Eye of the Storm (2011)
- schleppy — slovenly, dowdy, or run-down; frumpy: a schleppy hotel; a schleppy old bathrobe.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrapper — a fighter or aggressive competitor, especially one always ready or eager for a fight, argument, or contest: the best lightweight scrapper in boxing; a rugged political scrapper.
- scrapple — cornmeal mush mixed with pork scraps, seasoned with onions, spices, herbs, etc., and shaped into loaves and sliced for frying.