8-letter words containing t, r, a, p
- atropous — growing straight, without inversion
- attemper — to modify by blending; temper
- attercop — a spider
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autoharp — a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
- backport — (software) To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
- bad trip — a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- baptizer — someone who baptises
- bear pit — a place, such as parliament or the stock market ,where there are a lot of aggressive, argumentative and competitive people
- beartrap — A large trap used to catch a bear, usually as a foot trap.
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- becarpet — to lay carpet on
- bhatpara — a city in NE India, in West Bengal on the Hooghly River: jute and cotton mills. Pop: 441 956 (2001)
- bi-party — representing two distinct parties: a biparty investigating committee.
- bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- car part — a component of an automobile
- car port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- champart — the granting of land to a person on condition that a portion of the harvest will be given to the landowner
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- chip art — microchip art
- claptrap — If you describe something that someone says as claptrap, you mean that it is stupid or foolish although it may sound important.
- clip art — a large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer from which items can be selected for incorporation into documents
- coalport — a white translucent bone china having richly coloured moulded patterns, made in the 19th century at Coalport near Shrewsbury
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- copatron — a fellow patron
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"