11-letter words containing c, a, p, e, n
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- cape pigeon — a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae
- capernoited — capricious
- capernoitie — the head
- capped pawn — a pawn that has been singled out or marked by a strong player as the one with which he or she intends to effect checkmate in giving a weaker opponent odds.
- capping fee — a fee paid for a day of hunting with an association of hunters of which one is not a member.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
- cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
- carpentaria — Gulf ofarm of the Arafura Sea, indenting the N coast of Australia: c. 480 mi (772 km) long; 400 mi (644 km) wide
- carpinteria — a town in SW California.
- caspian sea — a salt lake between SE Europe and Asia: the largest inland sea in the world; fed mainly by the River Volga. Area: 394 299 sq km (152 239 sq miles)
- centre pass — a push or hit made in any direction to start the game or to restart the game after a goal has been scored
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- championess — a female champion
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- chaperoning — 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.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.