8-letter words containing p, e, n
- beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
- behappen — to befall
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- benchtop — a flat surface area
- bespoken — a past participle of bespeak.
- besprent — sprinkled over
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- bleeping — (used as a substitute word for one regarded as objectionable): Get that bleeping cat out of here!
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- bull pen — Baseball. a place where relief pitchers warm up during a game. the relief pitchers on a team.
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- cake pan — A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- campagne — a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
- camphane — a terpene hyrdocarbon, C10H18, that is both saturated and inert
- camphene — a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C10H16
- camphine — rectified oil of turpentine
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campness — the quality of being camp
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- capeline — a cap-shaped bandage for covering either the head or an amputation stump
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- capetian — a member of the dynasty founded by Hugh Capet, which ruled France from 987–1328 ad
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- captaine — Obsolete spelling of captain.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- cephalin — a phospholipid, similar to lecithin, that occurs in the nerve tissue and brain
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- cheapens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheapen.
- cheeping — Present participle of cheep.
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- chephren — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.