11-letter words containing c, a, p, e
- open stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is farther from the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- opening act — the first act at a concert, etc, esp before a main act
- opera cloak — a large cloak worn over evening clothes
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- overpackage — to package excessively
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
- pachydermia — an abnormal thickening of the skin
- pachydermic — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- padded cell — a room, as in a mental hospital, with padded walls for the confinement of violent inmates.
- paediatrics — Paediatrics is the area of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of children's illnesses.
- paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
- painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
- palace coup — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
- palaearctic — of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of Europe, Africa north of the Sahara, and most of Asia north of the Himalayas
- palaeotypic — characterized by palaeotype
- paleoarctic — palearctic.
- paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
- paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
- pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
- palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- paper birch — a North American birch, Betula papyrifera, having a tough bark and yielding a valuable wood: the state tree of New Hampshire.
- paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
- paper chase — the effort to earn a diploma or college degree, especially in law, or a professional certificate or license.
- paper match — book match.
- papyraceous — papery.
- para-cymene — a colorless liquid, C 1 0 H 1 4 , derived from benzene, found in various essential oils, and obtained as a by-product of papermaking.
- parabematic — relating to the parabema
- parableptic — relating to parablepsis
- paracetamol — painkilling drug
- paragenetic — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.