8-letter words containing p, e
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- cineplex — a large cinema complex
- ciphered — Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.
- cipherer — a person who ciphers
- cirriped — any of a class (Cirripedia) of saltwater crustaceans that are attached or parasitic as adults, including the barnacles and the rhizocephalans
- clampers — Plural form of clamper.
- clap-net — a net, used esp by entomologists, that can be closed instantly by pulling a string
- clappers — Plural form of clapper.
- claspers — a paired organ of male insects, used to clasp the female during copulation
- claspeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clasp.
- clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- clean-up — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleanups — Plural form of cleanup.
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- clippers — a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
- clippies — Plural form of clippie.
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clodpole — a dull or stupid person
- close up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
- close-up — the end or conclusion: at the close of day; the close of the speech.
- closeups — Plural form of closeup.
- clued-up — If you say that someone is clued-up on a particular subject, you are showing your approval of the fact that they have a great deal of detailed knowledge and information about it.
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clupeids — Plural form of clupeid.
- clupeoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), a large order of soft-finned fishes, including the herrings, salmon, and tarpon
- clypeate — shaped like a round shield
- coappear — to appear jointly
- codpiece — A codpiece was a piece of material worn by men in the 15th and 16th centuries to cover their genitals.
- coemploy — to employ together
- coked-up — showing the effects of having taken cocaine
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- compadre — a male friend
- compages — a structure or framework
- companie — Obsolete spelling of company.
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- comparer — One who, or that which, compares.
- compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
- compeers — A person of equal rank, status, or ability.
- compends — Plural form of compend.
- compense — (obsolete) To compensate.
- compered — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- comperes — Plural form of compere.
- compesce — to curb or restrain
- competed — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- competer — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- competes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compete.
- compiled — to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
- compiler — A compiler is someone who compiles books, reports, or lists of information.
- compiles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compile.