8-letter words containing p, e
- corpsmen — U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- coryphee — leading dancer of a corps de ballet
- 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.
- coupette — a small coupe for serving dessert.
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.
- couplets — Plural form of couplet.
- 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.
- cowpokes — Plural form of cowpoke.
- cpu time — processor time
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- creampie — Alternative spelling of cream pie.
- creepage — a slow and gradual movement
- creepers — a person or thing that creeps.
- creepier — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- creepily — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- creeping — (of a plant) having a stem that grows horizontally along the ground and throws out roots at intervals
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
- creperie — an eating establishment that specializes in pancakes; pancake house
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crimpers — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- crippled — physically incapacitated
- crippler — Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
- cripples — Plural form of cripple.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- crispens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crispen.
- crispers — Plural form of crisper.
- crispest — Superlative form of crisp.
- cropless — without a crop or crops
- croppers — Plural form of cropper.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- croupier — A croupier is the person in charge of a gambling table in a casino, who collects the bets and pays money to the people who have won.
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumpled — creased
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cruppers — Plural form of crupper.
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- culpeper — Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism
- cup size — a measurement of the parts of a bra that actually hold the breasts
- cup-tied — (of a team) unable to play another fixture because of involvement in a cup tie
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery