12-letter words containing c, a, n, p
- antiperiodic — efficacious against recurring attacks of a disease
- antiphonical — Alternative form of antiphonic.
- antiphrastic — relating to antiphrasis
- antipoaching — acting against or opposed to poaching
- antipolitics — the rejection of party and electoral politics
- antipruritic — acting against or preventing itching
- antipyretics — Plural form of antipyretic.
- antistrophic — Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.
- apache dance — a fast violent dance in French vaudeville, supposedly between a Parisian gangster and his girl
- apicomplexan — Describing protists of the phylum Apicomplexa.
- aplacophoran — solenogaster.
- apocynaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Apocynaceae, a family of mostly tropical flowering plants with latex in their stems, including the dogbane, periwinkle, oleander, and some lianas
- appendectomy — the surgical removal of the vermiform appendix
- appendencies — attached or suspended; annexed.
- appendicitis — Appendicitis is an illness in which a person's appendix is infected and painful.
- appendicular — relating to an appendage or appendicle
- apperceiving — Present participle of apperceive.
- apperception — the attainment of full awareness of a sensation or idea
- appercipient — having or using apperception
- appleknocker — Northern U.S. a rustic.
- applications — Plural form of application.
- appreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciation — Appreciation of something is the recognition and enjoyment of its good qualities.
- apprenticing — Present participle of apprentice.
- approachment — (archaic) approach.
- appurtenance — a secondary or less significant thing or part
- arachnophobe — a person who is afraid of spiders
- archiphoneme — an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad
- arena chapel — a private chapel in Padua containing a fresco cycle painted (1305–06) by Giotto.
- aristophanic — 448?–385? b.c, Athenian comic dramatist.
- asclepiadean — of or relating to a type of classical verse line consisting of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and an iamb
- asking price — The asking price of something is the price which the person selling it says that they want for it, although they may accept less.
- at any price — If you want something at any price, you are determined to get it, even if unpleasant things happen as a result.
- autohypnotic — Of or pertaining to autohypnosis; self-hypnotizing.
- back-patting — an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.
- backflipping — the process of reversing one's position
- backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- balance pipe — a pipe between two points used to equalize pressure
- banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
- bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
- bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
- black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
- brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front