8-letter words containing a, p, i, e
- 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
- capiases — Plural form of capias.
- capitate — shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsize.
- captaine — Obsolete spelling of captain.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- 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.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cei-pact — Central European Initiative on Parallel Computation.
- cephalic — of or relating to the head
- cephalin — a phospholipid, similar to lecithin, that occurs in the nerve tissue and brain
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chappies — Plural form of chappie.
- cheapish — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- chippage — the fact or an instance of chipping: The pottery could not be insured against chippage.
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- companie — Obsolete spelling of company.
- conepati — hog-nosed skunk (def 2).
- copiable — Alternative spelling of copyable.
- copiague — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- coppelia — a ballet (1870) by Délibes.
- copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- creampie — Alternative spelling of cream pie.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- depilate — to remove the hair from
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despisal — contempt; the act of despising; scorn
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.