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8-letter words containing pe

  • asperger — a developmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social skills, repetitive behaviors, and often, a narrow set of interests, but not involving delayed development of linguistic and cognitive abilities: now considered one of the autism spectrum disorders.
  • asperges — a short rite preceding Mass, in which the celebrant sprinkles those present with holy water to the accompaniment of the chant Asperges me, Domine
  • asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
  • aspermia — the failure to form or emit semen
  • aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
  • asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
  • aspersed — Simple past tense and past participle of asperse.
  • asperser — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
  • at peace — in a state of harmony or friendship
  • at speed — quickly
  • attemper — to modify by blending; temper
  • autotype — a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
  • bagpiper — a person who plays the bagpipes
  • bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
  • bebopper — A musician or aficionado of bebop music.
  • becarpet — to lay carpet on
  • bediaper — to put a nappy on
  • behappen — to befall
  • bepepper — to pelt with small missiles or sand
  • bepester — to pester persistently
  • bioscope — a kind of early film projector
  • blowpipe — a long tube from which pellets, poisoned darts, etc, are shot by blowing
  • boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
  • capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
  • capetian — a member of the dynasty founded by Hugh Capet, which ruled France from 987–1328 ad
  • 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
  • carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
  • carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
  • cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
  • centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
  • cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype
  • cesspipe — a waste pipe, especially one discharging from a cesspool.
  • champers — Champers is champagne.
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