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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.
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