8-letter words containing p, e
- overskip — to skip over
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- overspin — topspin.
- overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
- overtrip — to tread lightly over
- overtype — to replace (typed text) by typing new text in the same place
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- owerloup — an encroachment
- oxazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 1 5 H 1 1 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.
- oxpecker — either of two African starlings of the genus Buphagus, characterized by their habit of riding on large, wild animals and domestic cattle to feed on ticks.
- p marker — phrase marker.
- p-celtic — the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound became a p -sound. Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Gaulish belong to P-Celtic.
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pace car — (in auto racing) an automobile that leads the competing cars through a pace lap or laps and leaves the course before the actual start of the race.
- pace lap — a lap before the beginning of an auto race for warming up the engines and giving the field a moving start.
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- pacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- pack ice — a large area of floating ice formed over a period of many years and consisting of pieces of ice driven together by wind, current, etc.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- paganize — to make pagan.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pageview — one viewing of a web page; a single visit: Tracking pageviews is a way of predicting the advertising potential of a website.
- paginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- pahoehoe — basaltic lava having a smooth or billowy surface.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- pajamaed — wearing pajamas
- palatine — of, near, or in the palate; palatal: the palatine bones.
- pale ale — an amber colored ale brewed with pale malts; similar to bitter but drier and lighter
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.
- pallette — palette (def 8).
- palliate — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palmated — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.