8-letter words containing p, c, r
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- camp car — a railroad car used as a dormitory for construction and maintenance workers.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- cape ray — a promontory in SW Newfoundland, Canada
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- capmaker — a person who makes caps
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- capsular — relating to or resembling a capsule
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capybara — the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae
- car park — A car park is an area or building where people can leave their cars.
- car part — a component of an automobile
- car pool — A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
- car port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
- car-pool — Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- carapace — A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
- carpalia — any of the bones of the wrist.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.