12-letter words containing c, a, n, p
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- episcopalian — An adherent of episcopacy.
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- exceptionals — Plural form of exceptional.
- expectancies — Plural form of expectancy.
- expectations — Plural form of expectation.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- financescape — Figuratively, the financial landscape; financial markets.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- flag captain — the captain of a flagship
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
- gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
- garrison cap — overseas cap.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
- graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- happenchance — happenstance.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
- huayna capac — c1450–1527? Inca ruler of Peru 1493?–1527? (father of Atahualpa and Huascar).
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypnotically — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.