12-letter words containing a, c, e, p
- chamaephytes — Plural form of chamaephyte.
- change point — a point to which a foresight and backsight are taken in levelling; turning point
- change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.
- changepocket — a small pocket or compartment for holding coins.
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
- chapter head — printed material appearing before and usually above the text of a chapter, as a title, number, quotation, etc.
- chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
- chapter room — a room for the use of the chapter of a religious institution
- chapter stop — any of several markers placed at intervals on a DVD film, enabling the viewer to find and select particular scenes
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
- charles epee — Charles Michel, Abbé de l', 1712–89, French priest and teacher of the deaf: pioneer in the development of sign language.
- chart topper — a singer, band or video that comes top in the charts
- charterparty — an agreement for the hire of all or part of a ship for a specified voyage or period of time
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
- chi particle — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chirographer — Alternative form of chirographist.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
- choregrapher — Alt form choreographer.
- choreographs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of choreograph.
- choreography — Choreography is the inventing of steps and movements for ballets and other dances.
- chorographer — Someone who desscribes a particular region or country.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circle graph — pie chart.
- citlaltepetl — a volcano in SE Mexico, in central Veracruz state: the highest peak in the country. Height: 5636 m (18 492 ft), though this is disputed between different sources
- claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clamjamphrie — rubbish
- clap eyes on — to catch sight of
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- clapper rail — a long-billed rail, Rallus longirostris, of coastal marshes of the Americas, having a harsh, cackling cry.
- clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
- claptrappery — the art of eliciting applause
- cleft palate — If someone has a cleft palate, they were born with a narrow opening along the roof of their mouth which makes it difficult for them to speak properly.
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- cloud-capped — having clouds around the top
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.