12-letter words containing c, a, p, t
- at any price — If you want something at any price, you are determined to get it, even if unpleasant things happen as a result.
- atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
- atomic power — nuclear power.
- atychiphobia — (rare) The fear of failure.
- autocomplete — a feature of a word processor, email program, web browser, etc., that automatically predicts the remaining characters in a word or phrase based on what has been typed or input before: If you supply the information, your browser will be able to use autocomplete to fill out online forms.
- autohypnotic — Of or pertaining to autohypnosis; self-hypnotizing.
- autoptically — in an autoptical manner
- azcapotzalco — a city in central Mexico: suburb of Mexico City; a cultural center during the pre-Columbian period.
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- back-patting — an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.
- back-stopped — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
- barbecue pit — a trench in which wood or charcoal is burned for barbecuing
- baroreceptor — a collection of sensory nerve endings, principally in the carotid sinuses and the aortic arch, that monitor blood pressure changes in the body
- bathygraphic — of or relating to the depths of the ocean
- bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
- bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
- battle clasp — clasp (def 4).
- bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
- bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
- bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black sapote — a tropical American tree, Diospyros digyna, related to the persimmon, having sweet, edible, green fruit that turns black when ripe.
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- buck private — a common soldier
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- calcutta cup — a trophy competed for annually by England and Scotland since 1879
- caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
- campaign hat — a felt hat with a broad, stiff brim and four dents in the crown, formerly worn by personnel in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
- can't happen — (programming) The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also firewall code, professional programming.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
- capacitating — Present participle of capacitate.
- capacitation — to make capable; enable.