8-letter words containing p, e
- expunged — Simple past tense and past participle of expunge.
- expunger — One who expunges.
- eyedrops — Plural form of eyedrop.
- eyepatch — A patch worn to protect an injured eye.
- eyepiece — The lens or group of lenses that is closest to the eye in a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument.
- eyepoint — A point of reference based on the observer's focus, used in generating visual imagery in virtual reality systems.
- eyespots — Plural form of eyespot.
- facepalm — the gesture of placing the palm of one's hand across the face, as to express embarrassment, frustration, disbelief, etc. (often used as an interjection): She read the post and comments and did a facepalm. Okay, that was dumb—facepalm!
- fat pine — lightwood.
- fate map — a diagram or series of diagrams indicating the later structures or adult parts that develop from specific regions of an embryo or egg cortex.
- feedpipe — a pipe through which something is supplied to a machine or system, for instance steam to an engine, or oil to a tank
- feldspar — any of a group of minerals, principally aluminosilicates of potassium, sodium, and calcium, characterized by two cleavages at nearly right angles: one of the most important constituents of igneous rocks.
- felt pen — fibre-tipped marker pen
- felt-tip — A felt-tip or a felt-tip pen is a pen which has a piece of fibre at the end that the ink comes through.
- fen-phen — a drug that is a combination of fenfluramine and phentermine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- filliped — Simple past tense and past participle of fillip.
- finespun — spun or drawn out to a fine thread.
- fippence — fivepence
- fire pot — the part of a household furnace in which the fire is made.
- fired up — enthusiastic, excited
- firedamp — a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- firepink — a herbaceous wildflower with scarlet flowers, Silene virginica, belonging to the pink family and native to the Eastern US
- fireplug — fire hydrant.
- firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
- fireship — A ship loaded with burning material and explosives and set adrift to ignite and blow up an enemy’s ships.
- firestop — any object built into a building frame to block a concealed hollow space through which a fire might pass from one part of the building to another.
- firetrap — a building that, because of its age, material, structure, or the like, is especially dangerous in case of fire.
- fishpole — A fishing pole.
- fissiped — any member of the suborder Fissipedia, carnivorous mammals that have separate toes, as bears, badgers, dogs, cats, and raccoons.
- fivepins — a bowling game using five pins, played esp in Canada
- flagpole — a staff or pole on which a flag is or can be displayed.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flapless — not having a flap or flaps
- flappers — something broad and flat used for striking or for making a noise by striking.
- flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flare-up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- fleapits — Plural form of fleapit.
- fleshpot — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- flippers — Plural form of flipper.
- flipside — (music) The B-side of a phonograph record.
- flopover — a continuous, vertical movement of a television image picture caused by interference in reception or by improper tuning.
- floppers — air plant (def 2).
- floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
- floppies — Plural form of floppy.
- fly page — banner
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flyspeck — a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly.
- footpace — walking pace.