12-letter words containing c, a, p, r, y
- myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
- myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
- narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- onychophoran — any small, predatory, caterpillarlike animal of the phylum Onychophora, common in tropical forests, having stubby legs ending in pincers.
- operatically — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
- pachycarpous — having a thick pericarp
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- paracystitis — inflammation of the connective tissue around the urinary bladder.
- paranoically — in a paranoiac manner
- parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
- parisyllabic — (of a noun or verb, in inflected languages) containing the same number of syllables in all or almost all inflected forms
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- part company — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- participancy — participation.
- particularly — in a particular or to an exceptional degree; especially: He read it with particularly great interest.
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- pay court to — to court, as for favor or love
- pay increase — a rise in pay or salary
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- peace treaty — an agreement to come to peace and end conflict (between governments, countries, etc)
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- penny arcade — an amusement hall or area that contains coin-operated entertainment devices, originally operated for a penny a play.
- perceptually — of, relating to, or involving perception.
- perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- perspicacity — keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
- pharmacology — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- phrygian cap — a soft, conical cap represented in ancient Greek art as part of Phrygian dress and associated, since the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the liberty cap.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polypharmacy — the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.
- polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
- postcoronary — of, relating to, or occurring after a heart attack
- practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
- prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
- preoccupancy — the act, right, or instance of prior occupancy.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears