8-letter words containing a, p, l, e
- compleat — an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
- conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
- copiable — Alternative spelling of copyable.
- coppelia — a ballet (1870) by Délibes.
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- copyable — able to be copied
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- de plano — without argument.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- depilate — to remove the hair from
- deplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of deplane.
- deplanes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplane.
- 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.
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- despisal — contempt; the act of despising; scorn
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped
- dipteral — dipterous.
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- dyspneal — Alt form dyspnoeal.
- earflaps — Plural form of earflap.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- elaphine — relating to or resembling a red deer
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- empanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empanel.
- emplaced — Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.
- empyreal — Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean; celestial; sublime; exalted.
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- endplays — Plural form of endplay.
- enplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of enplane.
- enplanes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enplane.
- ensample — (obsolete) To exemplify, to show by example.
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- epaulets — Plural form of epaulet.
- epiblast — The outermost layer of an embryo before it differentiates into ectoderm and mesoderm.