13-letter words containing c, a, n, p
- championships — Plural form of championship.
- chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
- chapman stick — an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers
- chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
- charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chimney place — an open hearth.
- chronographic — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
- chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
- chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- ciprofloxacin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used against Gram-negative bacteria. It is effective against anthrax
- city planning — City planning is the planning and design of all the new buildings, roads, and parks in a place in order to make them attractive and convenient for the people who live there.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- clinopinacoid — (in monoclinic crystals) the plane that is parallel to both the vertical and the inclined lateral axes
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
- code napoleon — the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
- commandership — a person who commands.
- common prayer — the liturgy of public services of the Church of England, esp Morning and Evening Prayer
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- compagination — a union or act of joining
- companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies
- companion set — a set of fire irons on a stand
- companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
- companionably — possessing the qualities of a good companion; pleasant to be with; congenial.
- companionhood — companionship
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- companionship — Companionship is having someone you know and like with you, rather than being on your own.
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- company union — an unaffiliated union of workers usually restricted to a single business enterprise
- company woman — a female employee whose allegiance to her employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.
- compare notes — to exchange opinions
- compartimento — any of the 18 administrative districts into which Italy is divided.
- compartmental — divided into compartments: a compartmental office; a compartmental agency.
- compartmented — Divided into compartments.
- compass north — magnetic north, as indicated on a particular compass at a given moment.
- compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
- compass plant — a tall plant, Silphium laciniatum, of central North America, that has yellow flowers and lower leaves that tend to align themselves at right angles to the strongest light, esp in a north-south plane: family Asteraceae (composites)
- compass point — A compass point is one of the 32 marks on the dial of a compass that show direction, for example north, south, east, and west.