8-letter words containing p, c, r
- compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
- comprint — to print jointly
- comprise — If you say that something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, you mean it has them as its parts or members.
- comprize — comprise.
- comprosl — COMpound PROcedural Scientific Language. A language for scientists and engineers.
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computor — (obsolete) A person who calculates or computes.
- conspire — If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it.
- coopered — a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- copperah — copra.
- copperas — ferrous sulfate
- coppered — Simple past tense and past participle of copper.
- copperon — cupferron.
- copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
- coprince — a fellow prince
- coprosma — any shrub of the Australasian rubiaceous genus Coprosma: sometimes planted for ornament
- copurify — (of a compound) to purify, and be purified by, another compound
- copygirl — a girl employed by a newspaper or broadcast news office to carry copy and run errands
- copyread — to subedit
- cornpipe — a musical instrument made from a stalk of corn
- cornpone — cornbread, esp a plain type made with water
- corporal — A corporal is a non-commissioned officer in the army or United States Marines.
- corpsing — Present participle of corpse.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corpsmen — U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- corrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrupt.
- coryphee — leading dancer of a corps de ballet
- coscript — to script jointly
- couperin — François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music
- couperus — Louis [loo-ee] /luˈi/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Dutch novelist.
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.
- couponer — a person who seeks out or saves discount coupons, as for buying grocery items.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- cramping — cramp iron.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.