8-letter words containing p, t, c, a
- fat camp — a residential camp at which children undergo a programme of exercise, diet change, etc, intended to help them lose weight
- flat cap — A flat cap is the same as a cloth cap.
- flatpack — A package for an integrated circuit consisting of a rectangular sealed unit with a number of horizontal metal pins protruding from its sides.
- flatpick — a plectrum
- footpace — walking pace.
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- haptical — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
- hepatica — any plant belonging to the genus Hepatica, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and delicate purplish, pink, or white flowers.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heptarch — A heptarchist.
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- match up — pair
- match-up — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- occipita — Plural form of occiput.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
- octapody — (in poetic metre) a line, stanza, or piece of poetic writing that contains eight feet
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- pacation — the act of making peace
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- pack rat — person who hoards or collects
- pack-rat — to save in the manner of a pack rat: I’m looking through the stuff my grandpa pack-ratted away in the attic.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- pancetta — Italian pork belly cured with salt, pepper, and other spices and air-dried up to four months, tightly rolled in a cylinder.
- panoptic — permitting the viewing of all parts or elements: a panoptic stain used in microscopy; a panoptic aerial photograph of an enemy missile base.