These are the meanings of the letters EMPAC when you unscramble them.
- Acme (n.)
Mature age; full bloom of life.
- Acme (n.)
The crisis or height of a disease.
- Acme (n.)
The top or highest point; the culmination.
- Came ()
imp. of Come.
- Came (imp.)
of Come
- Came (n.)
A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.
- Camp (n.)
A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
- Camp (n.)
A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
- Camp (n.)
A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
- Camp (n.)
An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
- Camp (n.)
The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
- Camp (n.)
The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
- Camp (n.)
To play the game called camp.
- Camp (v. i.)
To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.
- Camp (v. t.)
To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
- Cape (n.)
A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
- Cape (n.)
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.
- Cape (v. i.)
To gape.
- Cape (v. i.)
To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
- Mace (n.)
A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
- Mace (n.)
A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.
- Mace (n.)
A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
- Mace (n.)
A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
- Mace (n.)
A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.
- Mace (n.)
A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
- Mace (n.)
An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
- Pace (n.)
A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
- Pace (n.)
A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
- Pace (n.)
A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
- Pace (n.)
A slow gait; a footpace.
- Pace (n.)
Any single movement, step, or procedure.
- Pace (n.)
Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.
- Pace (n.)
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
- Pace (n.)
The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.
- Pace (v. i.)
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
- Pace (v. i.)
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
- Pace (v. i.)
To pass away; to die.
- Pace (v. i.)
To proceed; to pass on.
- Pace (v. t.)
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
- Pace (v. t.)
To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
- Pace (v. t.)
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.