8-letter words containing p, e
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- brew pub — a bar serving beer brewed at a small microbrewery on the premises.
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- bull pen — Baseball. a place where relief pitchers warm up during a game. the relief pitchers on a team.
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- cake pan — A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliope — a steam organ
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- camp pie — tinned meat
- campagne — a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
- campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
- campeche — a state of SE Mexico, on the SW of the Yucatán peninsula: forestry and fishing. Capital: Campeche. Pop: 205 000 (2005 est). Area: 56 114 sq km (21 666 sq miles)
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphane — a terpene hyrdocarbon, C10H18, that is both saturated and inert
- camphene — a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C10H16
- camphine — rectified oil of turpentine
- camphire — henna
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campmate — Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- cape cod — a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- cape ray — a promontory in SW Newfoundland, Canada
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capeline — a cap-shaped bandage for covering either the head or an amputation stump
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capellet — a swelling on a horse's elbow, or on the heel of the hock, resembling a wen