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12-letter words containing a, c, e, n, p

  • balance pipe — a pipe between two points used to equalize pressure
  • banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
  • black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
  • brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
  • cameraperson — a camera operator
  • camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
  • camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • can't happen — (programming)   The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also firewall code, professional programming.
  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • candied peel — fruit skin which has been impregnated or encrusted with sugar or syrup, esp that of citrus fruits
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
  • canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
  • cape dezhnev — a cape in NE Russia at the E end of Chukchi Peninsula: the northeasternmost point of Asia
  • cape jasmine — a widely cultivated gardenia shrub, Gardenia jasminoides
  • cape matapan — a cape in S Greece, at the S central tip of the Peloponnese: the southern point of the mainland of Greece
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
  • cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
  • capricornean — born under or characteristic of Capricorn
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • car expenses — incidental money spent on the operation of a car during the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
  • carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
  • catching pen — a pen adjacent to a shearer's stand containing the sheep ready for shearing
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • centuplicate — to increase 100 times
  • ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
  • chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
  • change point — a point to which a foresight and backsight are taken in levelling; turning point
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