11-letter words containing a, p, e, l, i
- caterpillar — A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
- caterpiller — Archaic spelling of caterpillar.
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- cephalalgia — headache (def 1).
- cephalalgic — relating to or affected by headache
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chalcophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for sulfur.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- chapel hill — a city in central North Carolina.
- 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
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- compactible — able to be made compact
- companiable — sociable
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- compliances — Plural form of compliance.
- 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.
- complicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate.
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- 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.
- cycloplegia — paralysis of the muscles that adjust the shape of the lens of the eye, resulting in loss of ability to focus
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
- delapidated — Misspelling of dilapidated.
- delipidated — Simple past tense and past participle of delipidate.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- deploration — the act of deploring
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- des plaines — city in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 59,000
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- dicephalous — having two heads