8-letter words containing a, c, p, r
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- e-piracy — the illegal uploading of digital copies of copyrighted works to a website, or the illegal downloading of such material.
- earpiece — a piece that covers or passes over the ear, as on a cap or eyeglasses.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- epicarps — Plural form of epicarp.
- escapers — Plural form of escaper.
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- ethercap — a spider
- ettercap — a spider
- exocarps — Plural form of exocarp.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- hairclip — A clip to hold back the hair.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- heptarch — A heptarchist.
- hipparch — (in ancient Greece) a cavalry commander
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- 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.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
- microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- pace car — (in auto racing) an automobile that leads the competing cars through a pace lap or laps and leaves the course before the actual start of the race.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- 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.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.