8-letter words containing p, e
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- capetian — a member of the dynasty founded by Hugh Capet, which ruled France from 987–1328 ad
- capeweed — a low-growing, creeping plant, Arctotheca calendulacea, used as a ground cover in warm climates.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capiases — Plural form of capias.
- capitate — shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- 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
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- 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
- capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsize.
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- captaine — Obsolete spelling of captain.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- 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.
- capuched — hooded
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- 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.
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- 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
- cei-pact — Central European Initiative on Parallel Computation.
- cell sap — the watery fluid within the central vacuole of a plant cell.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
- cephalic — of or relating to the head
- cephalin — a phospholipid, similar to lecithin, that occurs in the nerve tissue and brain