11-letter words containing a, d, p
- cedar apple — a brown gall on the branches of the juniper, produced by several rust fungi of the genus Gymnosporangium.
- cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
- cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
- chaptalized — Simple past tense and past participle of chaptalize.
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- coon rapids — a city in E Minnesota.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
- cord carpet — a type of carpet with a ribbed surface
- coup d'état — When there is a coup d'état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- coup d’état — When there is a coup d’état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- dalton plan — a system devised to encourage pupils to learn and develop at their own speed, using libraries and other sources to complete long assignments
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
- dapple-gray — gray spotted with darker gray
- dapple-grey — a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- data packet — packet
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated