8-letter words containing p, r
- corporal — A corporal is a non-commissioned officer in the army or United States Marines.
- corpsing — Present participle of corpse.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corpsmen — U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- corrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrupt.
- coryphee — leading dancer of a corps de ballet
- coscript — to script jointly
- couperin — François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music
- couperus — Louis [loo-ee] /luˈi/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Dutch novelist.
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.
- couponer — a person who seeks out or saves discount coupons, as for buying grocery items.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- cramping — cramp iron.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- creampie — Alternative spelling of cream pie.
- creepage — a slow and gradual movement
- creepers — a person or thing that creeps.
- creepier — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- creepily — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- creeping — (of a plant) having a stem that grows horizontally along the ground and throws out roots at intervals
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
- creperie — an eating establishment that specializes in pancakes; pancake house
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crimpers — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- crimping — Compress (something) into small folds or ridges.
- crippled — physically incapacitated
- crippler — Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
- cripples — Plural form of cripple.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- crispens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crispen.
- crispers — Plural form of crisper.
- crispest — Superlative form of crisp.
- crisping — Present participle of crisp.
- crockpot — a brand of electric slow cooker
- crompton — Richmal, full name Richmal Crompton Lamburn. 1890–1969, British children's author, best known for her Just William stories