8-letter words containing p, o, e
- 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
- 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.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- 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.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- 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
- cesspool — A cesspool is the same as a cesspit.
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- chicopee — city in SW Mass., on the Connecticut River: pop. 55,000
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppers — teeth
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clodpole — a dull or stupid person
- close up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
- close-up — the end or conclusion: at the close of day; the close of the speech.
- closeups — Plural form of closeup.
- clupeoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), a large order of soft-finned fishes, including the herrings, salmon, and tarpon
- coappear — to appear jointly
- codpiece — A codpiece was a piece of material worn by men in the 15th and 16th centuries to cover their genitals.
- coemploy — to employ together
- coked-up — showing the effects of having taken cocaine
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- compadre — a male friend
- compages — a structure or framework
- companie — Obsolete spelling of company.
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- comparer — One who, or that which, compares.
- compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
- compeers — A person of equal rank, status, or ability.
- compends — Plural form of compend.
- compense — (obsolete) To compensate.
- compered — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.