8-letter words containing p, e
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- cut-pile — having a pile with yarns that are cut instead of looped: a cut-pile carpet.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cyberpet — an electronic toy that simulates the activities of a pet, requiring the owner to feed, discipline, and entertain it
- cyclopes — Plural form of cyclops.
- cyphered — Simple past tense and past participle of cypher.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- dampened — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- data pen — a device for reading or scanning magnetically coded data on labels, packets, etc
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- de plano — without argument.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
- decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
- decrepid — Obsolete spelling of decrepit (17th-20th c.).
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- decupled — Simple past tense and past participle of decuple.
- decuples — Plural form of decuple.
- decuplet — (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
- deep end — the area of a swimming pool where the depth of water is greatest
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- deep web — the part of the World Wide Web not accessible through conventional search engines
- deep-fry — If you deep-fry food, you fry it in a large amount of fat or oil.
- deep-sea — Deep-sea activities take place in the areas of the sea that are a long way from the coast.
- deep-set — Deep-set eyes seem to be further back in the face than most people's eyes.
- deep-six — To deep-six something means to get rid of it or destroy it.
- deepened — Simple past tense and past participle of deepen.
- deepener — One who, or that which, deepens.
- deepfelt — relating to a sincere or profound experience
- deepmost — most deep; deepest
- deepness — extending far down from the top or surface: a deep well; a deep valley.
- dehyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- delphine — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of dolphins.
- demireps — Plural form of demirep.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- demyship — a type of scholarship awarded at Magdalen College, Oxford