8-letter words containing p, c, e
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
- creperie — an eating establishment that specializes in pancakes; pancake house
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crimpers — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- crippled — physically incapacitated
- crippler — Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
- cripples — Plural form of cripple.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- crispens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crispen.
- crispers — Plural form of crisper.
- crispest — Superlative form of crisp.
- cropless — without a crop or crops
- croppers — Plural form of cropper.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- croupier — A croupier is the person in charge of a gambling table in a casino, who collects the bets and pays money to the people who have won.
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumpled — creased
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cruppers — Plural form of crupper.
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- culpeper — Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism
- cup size — a measurement of the parts of a bra that actually hold the breasts
- cup-tied — (of a team) unable to play another fixture because of involvement in a cup tie
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- cut-pile — having a pile with yarns that are cut instead of looped: a cut-pile carpet.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cyberpet — an electronic toy that simulates the activities of a pet, requiring the owner to feed, discipline, and entertain it
- cyclopes — Plural form of cyclops.
- cyphered — Simple past tense and past participle of cypher.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
- decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
- decrepid — Obsolete spelling of decrepit (17th-20th c.).
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- decupled — Simple past tense and past participle of decuple.
- decuples — Plural form of decuple.
- decuplet — (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
- depacked — Simple past tense and past participle of depack.
- depeinct — to depict