13-letter words containing a, n, t, e, p
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
- capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
- capstan lathe — a lathe for repetitive work, having a rotatable turret resembling a capstan to hold tools for successive operations
- capstan table — drum table.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- carpenter ant — any of a genus (Camponotus) of large ants that build nests in wooden buildings, tree trunks, etc. by gnawing out a complicated series of chambers
- carpenter bee — any large solitary bee of the genus Xylocopa and related genera that lays its eggs in tunnels bored into wood or in plant stems: family Apidae
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
- carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
- cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
- center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- 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)
- cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
- chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
- charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies
- companion set — a set of fire irons on a stand
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- compare notes — to exchange opinions
- compartimento — any of the 18 administrative districts into which Italy is divided.
- compartmental — divided into compartments: a compartmental office; a compartmental agency.
- compartmented — Divided into compartments.
- compassionate — If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- 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.
- concert party — a musical entertainment popular in the early 20th century, esp one at a British seaside resort