12-letter words containing a, c, e, p, o
- copperplates — Plural form of copperplate.
- copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- corporealism — materialism
- corporealist — a materialist
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- corporealize — to make corporeal
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
- counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.
- counterparty — a person who is a party to a contract
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- coup d'essai — a first attempt.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cyclopentane — a colourless insoluble cycloalkane found in petroleum and used mainly as a solvent. Formula: C5H10
- cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discorporate — Having no material body.