10-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capraesque — relating to or in the style of the movies of Frank Capra, focusing on courage and its positive effects and the triumph of the underdog.
- capreolate — possessing or resembling tendrils
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbapenem — (organic compound) Any of a class of broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics that are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis.
- card creep — chip creep
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- carpe diem — enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future
- carpellary — (botany) Of or pertaining to carpels.
- carpellate — having carpels.
- carpenters — Plural form of carpenter.
- carpentier — Georges (ʒɔrʒ), known as Gorgeous Georges. 1894–1975, French boxer: world light-heavyweight champion (1920–22)
- carpetable — Suitable for being carpeted.
- carpetbags — Plural form of carpetbag.
- carpetless — Not carpeted.
- carpetweed — an annual weed, Mollugo verticillata, native to North America, which produces small white flowers
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- carpospore — a sexual spore produced by red algae after fertilization of the carpogonium
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- carpsucker — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Carpiodes, as the quillback and the river carpsucker.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- casekeeper — the person who records in the casebox a tally of cards as they appear in the box.
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- catnappers — Plural form of catnapper.
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chaparejos — chaps1
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
- chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
- chapter 11 — the statute regarding the reorganization of a failing business empowering a court to allow the debtors to remain in control of the business to attempt to save it
- charge-cap — (formerly in Britain) to impose on (a local authority) an upper limit on the community charge it may levy
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- cheap-rate — charged at a lower rate
- cheapernet — (networking) (Or "thinnet") A colloquial term for thin-wire Ethernet (10base2) that uses RG58 coaxial cable instead of the full-spec "Yellow Cable".
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.