11-letter words containing c, a, p, s
- appearances — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
- appendences — attached or suspended; annexed.
- apple sauce — Apple sauce is a type of sauce made from puréed cooked apples.
- applescript — (language) An object-oriented shell language for the Macintosh, approximately a superset of HyperTalk.
- applicators — Plural form of applicator.
- appreciates — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- aprioristic — belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
- archbishops — Plural form of archbishop.
- archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
- ars poetica — the art of poetry
- arthroscope — a tubular instrument that is inserted into the capsule of a joint to examine the joint, extract tissue, etc
- arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
- ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
- aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
- asplanchnic — having no gut
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black stump — a long way off
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- cactus pear — tuna2 .
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.