11-letter words containing a, m, p, c, o
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- cgi program — Common Gateway Interface
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
- chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
- chromograph — (obsolete) chromolithograph.
- chromoplasm — chromatin.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- compactable — Capable of being compacted.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- compactible — able to be made compact
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compaginate — to join or unite
- companiable — sociable
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
- company man — an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- comparators — Plural form of comparator.
- comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
- compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
- compass saw — a hand saw with a narrow tapered blade for making a curved cut
- compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- compearance — the act of appearing in court
- compellable — (of a witness) able to be made to attend court or testify.
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.