These are the meanings of the letters EPPAIC when you unscramble them.
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Cape (n.)
A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
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Cape (v. i.)
To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
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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.
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Cape (v. i.)
To gape.
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Epic (a.)
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.
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Epic (n.)
An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
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Pace (n.)
A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
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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.
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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.
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Pace (n.)
A slow gait; a footpace.
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Pace (n.)
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
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Pace (n.)
Any single movement, step, or procedure.
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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.
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Pace (n.)
A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
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Pace (v. i.)
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
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Pace (v. i.)
To proceed; to pass on.
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Pace (v. i.)
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
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Pace (v. i.)
To pass away; to die.
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Pace (v. t.)
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
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Pace (v. t.)
To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
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Pace (v. t.)
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
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Pica (n.)
The genus that includes the magpies.
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Pica (n.)
A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
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Pica (n.)
A service-book. See Pie.
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Pica (n.)
A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
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Pice (n.)
A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
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Pipe (n.)
A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
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Pipe (n.)
Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
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Pipe (n.)
A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
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Pipe (n.)
A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
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Pipe (n.)
The key or sound of the voice.
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Pipe (n.)
The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
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Pipe (n.)
The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
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Pipe (n.)
An elongated body or vein of ore.
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Pipe (n.)
A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
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Pipe (n.)
A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
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Pipe (n.)
A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
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Pipe (v. i.)
To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
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Pipe (v. i.)
To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
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Pipe (v. i.)
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
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Pipe (v. i.)
To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
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Pipe (v. t.)
To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
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Pipe (v. t.)
To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
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Pipe (v. t.)
To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.