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8-letter words containing pe

  • lolloped — Simple past tense and past participle of lollop.
  • lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
  • lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
  • lycopene — a red crystalline substance, C 40 H 56 , that is the main pigment of certain fruits, as the tomato and paprika, and is a precursor to carotene in plant biosynthesis.
  • mag tape — a magnetic tape used for recording data.
  • malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
  • manscape — A view of a group of people.
  • mapepire — (Trinidad and Tobago) The venomous snake Lachesis muta.
  • mesopeak — the level of maximum temperature in the mesophere, at an altitude of about 30 miles (48 km).
  • mindwipe — (transitive, science fiction) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
  • misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
  • misspeak — Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
  • misspell — Spell (a word) incorrectly.
  • misspelt — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
  • misspend — to spend wrongly or unwisely; squander; waste.
  • misspent — spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
  • mistyped — Simple past tense and past participle of mistype.
  • mistypes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistype.
  • mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
  • mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
  • monotype — the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
  • mpegplus — (compression, algorithm)   A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
  • multiped — having many feet.
  • myoscope — an instrument for observing muscular contraction.
  • nametape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
  • neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
  • nepenthe — a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble.
  • netpipes — (networking)   A package by Robert Forsman <[email protected]> to manipulate BSD Unix TCP/IP stream sockets. The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. It can also simplify client-server code by allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter/service.
  • netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
  • netspeak — internet jargon
  • new hope — a town in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • news peg — a news story that forms the basis of or justification for a feature story, editorial, political cartoon, or the like.
  • newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
  • no-hoper — a useless person from whom nothing can be expected.
  • o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
  • obtemper — to comply (with)
  • oedipean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Oedipus or the Oedipus complex.
  • off-peak — of, relating to, or during a period of less than maximum frequency, demand, intensity, or use: the off-peak travel season; off-peak train fares.
  • oilpaper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
  • oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
  • on paper — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
  • open bar — a bar at a reception that serves drinks whose cost has been borne by the host, an admission charge, a sponsor, etc.: Before the banquet there will be an open bar from 5 to 7 p.m.
  • open cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • open day — An open day is a day on which members of the public are encouraged to visit a particular school, university, or other institution to see what it is like.
  • open die — a die of flat, concave, or hollow V shape that only minimally restricts lateral flow.
  • open out — lead to wider area
  • open pit — An open pit is a mine where the coal, metal, or minerals are near the surface and underground passages are not needed.
  • open sea — the main body of a sea or ocean, especially the part that is outside territorial waters and not enclosed, or partially enclosed, by land.
  • open set — a set which is not a closed set
  • open-air — existing in, taking place in, or characteristic of the open air; outdoor: The orchestra gave three open-air concerts last summer.
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