4-letter words containing p, e
- ercp — endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
- esop — Employee Stock Ownership Plan: a compensation plan set up by a company and funded with its tax-deductible contributions by which qualified employees accumulate shares of the company's stock
- espy — Catch sight of.
- excp — Execute Channel Program
- expo — A large exhibition.
- feep — /feep/ 1. The soft electronic "bell" sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep). 2. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: beep, "bleep", or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic strip "Shoe", uses the word "eep" for sounds made by computer terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term "breedle" was sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the musical equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The "feeper" on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also ding.
- gape — to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
- geep — the hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.
- gipe — Alternative form of gype.
- grep — A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
- gype — (Ulster) fool; clumsy, awkward person; long-legged person; silly girl.
- hdpe — high-density polyethylene
- heap — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- heep — Uriah, Uriah Heep.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- hemp — Also called Indian hemp, marijuana. a tall, coarse plant, Cannabis sativa, that is native to Asia but naturalized or cultivated in many parts of the world and is the source of a valuable fiber as well as drugs such as marijuana and hashish. Compare cannabis.
- hepa — noting or using an air filter composed of a mat of dense fibers arranged in folds, designed according to federal standards to trap at least 99.97% of airborne particles measuring 0.3 microns in diameter: HEPA vacuums and air purifiers.
- herp — (colloquial) a reptile or amphibian.
- hesp — (Scotland) A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
- hetp — a yellow, very poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5 O) 6 P 4 O 7 , soluble in water, used as an insecticide.
- hipe — (wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
- hope — Anthony, pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins.
- hype — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- iepg — Internet Engineering and Planning Group
- ipes — Plural form of ipe.
- ipse — Integrated Project Support Environment
- jape — to jest; joke; gibe.
- jeep — (lowercase) to ride or travel in a jeep.
- jpeg — Joint Photographic Experts Group
- jupe — A style of skirt.
- keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kelp — any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.
- kemp — Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
- kepe — Archaic spelling of keep.
- kepi — a French military cap with a flat circular top and a nearly horizontal visor.
- kept — simple past tense and past participle of keep.
- kipe — An osier basket used for catching fish.
- kype — The bend that develops in the jaw of a salmon when it's ready to spawn.
- ldpe — low-density polyethylene
- leap — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leep — to boil or scald
- leps — Plural form of lep.
- lept — (archaic) Simple past form of leap.
- lerp — (uncountable) A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
- lipe — a lurching or jerking movement
- lope — to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
- lupe — a female given name.
- meep — A short, high-pitched sound, especially as emitted by an animal or a vehicle’s horn.
- meph — (informal) mephedrone.
- mope — to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.