13-letter words containing c, a, n, p
- compassionate — If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- complainingly — In a complaining manner; peevishly.
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
- complex plane — a plane the points of which are complex numbers.
- complications — Plural form of complication.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- compositional — Compositional refers to the way composers and artists use their skills or techniques in their work.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- compressional — relating to compression
- comprovincial — belonging to the same province
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- concert party — a musical entertainment popular in the early 20th century, esp one at a British seaside resort
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- conspiracists — Plural form of conspiracist.
- conspiratress — a woman who conspires
- conspurcation — the act of defiling
- constupration — the act of raping or violating
- contact paper — Photography. sensitized paper on which a contact print is made.
- contact patch — the area of contact between a tire on an automotive vehicle and the road surface.
- contact print — a photographic print made by exposing the printing paper through a negative placed directly onto it
- contact sport — a sport that involves physical contact between participants, such as rugby
- containerport — a shipping port specially equipped to handle containerized cargo
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
- contemplating — to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.
- contemplation — thoughtful or long consideration or observation
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemplative — Someone who is contemplative thinks deeply, or is thinking in a serious and calm way.
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
- contracepting — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- contraception — Contraception refers to methods of preventing pregnancy.
- contraceptive — A contraceptive method or device is a method or a device which a woman uses to prevent herself from becoming pregnant.
- contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
- contre-partie — (in buhlwork) an inlay composed of a design in tortoise shell on a background of brass.
- control panel — the part of a machine or piece of equipment that houses the controls
- convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
- convexo-plane — plano-convex
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
- copy negative — master (def 21).