8-letter words containing p, m
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- day camp — a camp for children providing no sleeping facilities and attended only during the day on weekdays.
- de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.
- deepmost — most deep; deepest
- demireps — Plural form of demirep.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- demyship — a type of scholarship awarded at Magdalen College, Oxford
- deplumed — Simple past tense and past participle of deplume.
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- diazepam — a chemical compound used as a minor tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and to treat acute epilepsy. Formula: C16H13ClN2O
- dimpling — a small, natural hollow area or crease, permanent or transient, in some soft part of the human body, especially one formed in the cheek in smiling.
- diplomas — Plural form of diploma.
- diplomat — a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- displume — to strip of plumes; deplume.
- dome top — a top to a desk, secretary, or the like having the form of a semicircular pediment.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- doxapram — a drug used to stimulate the respiratory process
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- dry-hump — to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity
- dummkopf — a stupid person; dumbbell; blockhead.
- dummy up — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- dumpings — Plural form of dumping.
- dumpling — a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soup or with stewed meat.
- dumpsite — dump (def 17).
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- dust-mop — to clean with a dust mop.
- ecomorph — A local variety of a species whose appearance is determined by its ecological environment.
- empacket — to wrap up
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- empanada — A Spanish or Latin American pastry turnover filled with a variety of savory ingredients and baked or fried.
- empanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empanel.
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- empeople — to bring people into
- emperess — Obsolete form of empress.
- emperish — to damage or harm
- emperize — to act like an emperor over
- emperors — Plural form of emperor.
- emphases — Plural form of emphasis.
- emphasis — Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- empierce — to pierce or cut
- empirics — Plural form of empiric.
- emplaced — Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.