8-letter words containing p, e, c, a
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- kneecaps — Plural form of kneecap.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lapdance — Alternative spelling of lap dance.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- manscape — A view of a group of people.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- 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.