8-letter words containing p, e, c, a
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
- precaval — See under vena cava.
- preclean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- preclear — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- preplace — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- pucelage — virginity
- pucellas — a tool resembling tongs or shears for handling and shaping molten glass.
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- punctate — marked with points or dots; having minute spots or depressions.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- 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
- 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.
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- seaperch — surfperch.
- seapiece — seascape (def 1).
- seascape — a sketch, painting, or photograph of the sea.
- septical — septic
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- shape_vc — A code management system which offers version control functionality similar to systems like RCS or SCCS with some extensions and a more Unix-like command interface.
- skyscape — a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- spacelab — a manned laboratory in space, developed by the European Space Agency, carried aboard an orbiting space shuttle.
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spacewar — (games) A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spectate — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.