8-letter words containing w, p, c
- backwrap — anything that can be wrapped around the back to provide back support or relieve back pain
- capeweed — a low-growing, creeping plant, Arctotheca calendulacea, used as a ground cover in warm climates.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- cow flop — cow dung.
- cow pony — a horse used by cowboys when herding
- cowpokes — Plural form of cowpoke.
- cowslips — Plural form of cowslip.
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crow-hop — a short hop.
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- pickwick — a picklike implement for catching up and raising a short wick of an oil lamp.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- pow camp — Prisoner of War camp: a place where soldiers who have been captured by their enemy during a war are kept as prisoners until the end of the war
- screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw-up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- spacewar — (games) A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
- supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
- two-pack — (of a paint, filler, etc) supplied as two separate components, for example a base and a catalyst, that are mixed together immediately before use
- twopence — (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of two pennies.
- webspace — (computing, Internet) Disk space used to store webpages and other content that can be accessed through the Web.
- wet pack — a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.
- whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
- whipjack — a beggar imitating a distressed sailor
- whitecap — a wave with a broken and foaming white crest.
- whitecup — a creeping South American plant, Nierembergia repens, of the nightshade family, having bell-shaped, lilac- or blue-tinged, cream-white flowers.
- wickiups — Plural form of wickiup.
- wolfpack — A family or other group of wild wolves.
- woodchip — a small chip of wood, especially one that flakes off when felling a tree or splitting a log.
- woodchop — To chop wood, especially as a sport.
- woolpack — a coarse fabric, usually of jute, in which raw wool is packed for transport.
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