13-letter words containing a, c, p, u
- capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
- capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
- catch up with — When people catch up with someone who has done something wrong, they succeed in finding them in order to arrest or punish them.
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- celiac plexus — solar plexus (def 1).
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
- chemical pulp — wood pulp made from chemically treated and cooked wood fibers and used in the manufacture of better grades of paper.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- company union — an unaffiliated union of workers usually restricted to a single business enterprise
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- conspurcation — the act of defiling
- constupration — the act of raping or violating
- contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
- cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
- corpora lutea — corpus luteum
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
- coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds