11-letter words containing a, p, o, s, t
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
- cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- campo santo — a cemetery
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capitations — Plural form of capitation.
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- cargo pants — Cargo pants are large, loose pants with lots of pockets.
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- cataphonics — catacoustics
- catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
- cattle-stop — a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- 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.
- chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
- cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparators — Plural form of comparator.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- compensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compensate.
- compensator — a person or thing that compensates
- complaisant — If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.
- complicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate.
- compostable — capable of being used as compost
- conspirator — A conspirator is a person who joins a conspiracy.
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- constipates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constipate.
- constuprate — to rape or violate
- contrapasso — The concept that the punishment of an individual's soul in Hell corresponds to the sin that person committed on earth.
- copy taster — a person who selects or approves text for publication, esp in a periodical
- corporatism — Corporatism is the organization and control of a country by groups who share a common interest or profession.
- corporatist — You use corporatist to describe organizations, ideas, or systems which follow the principles of corporatism.
- cotransport — the transport of one solute across a membrane from a region of low concentration of another solute to a region of high concentration of that solute
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps