8-letter words containing p, r
- crop out — (of a formation of rock strata) to appear or be exposed at the surface of the ground; outcrop
- crop top — A crop top is a very short, usually tight, top worn by a girl or a woman.
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- cropless — without a crop or crops
- croppers — Plural form of cropper.
- cropping — the trimming or masking of unwanted edges or areas of a negative or print
- cropsick — unwell as a result of excessive eating or drinking
- cross up — to confuse or disorder
- cross-up — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- croupier — A croupier is the person in charge of a gambling table in a casino, who collects the bets and pays money to the people who have won.
- croupily — in a croupy manner
- croupous — (medicine) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup.
- crow-hop — a short hop.
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumpled — creased
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cruppers — Plural form of crupper.
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- cryptids — Plural form of cryptid.
- culpeper — Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism
- culprits — Plural form of culprit.
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- cuspidor — spittoon
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- cyberpet — an electronic toy that simulates the activities of a pet, requiring the owner to feed, discipline, and entertain it
- cyphered — Simple past tense and past participle of cypher.
- cyprinid — any teleost fish of the mainly freshwater family Cyprinidae, typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales and including such food and game fishes as the carp, tench, roach, rudd, and dace
- d-prolog — (language) A version of Prolog extended with defeasible reasoning.
- damp-dry — (of something, such as a garment, that has been drying) nearly dry but still damp
- dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- day trip — A day trip is a journey to a place and back again on the same day, usually for pleasure.
- day-trip — to travel as a day-tripper.
- decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
- decrepid — Obsolete spelling of decrepit (17th-20th c.).
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- deep-fry — If you deep-fry food, you fry it in a large amount of fat or oil.
- deepener — One who, or that which, deepens.
- demireps — Plural form of demirep.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- denpasar — seaport in S Bali, Indonesia: pop. 261,000
- departed — Departed friends or relatives are people who have died.
- departee — a person who departs or has departed
- departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys