8-letter words containing p, e, r
- blipvert — a very short television advertisement
- boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- brew pub — a bar serving beer brewed at a small microbrewery on the premises.
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- 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.
- carapace — A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
- 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
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- 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.
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype
- champers — Champers is champagne.
- chapelry — the district legally assigned to and served by an Anglican chapel
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch