11-letter words containing c, a, r, p
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- cgi program — Common Gateway Interface
- chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chao phraya — a river in N Thailand, rising in the N highlands and flowing south to the Gulf of Thailand. Length: (including the headstreams Nan and Ping) 1200 km (750 miles)
- 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)
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheeseparer — a skinflint or miser
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chip heater — a domestic water heater that burns chips of wood
- chirography — handwriting; penmanship
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- choreograph — When someone choreographs a ballet or other dance, they invent the steps and movements and tell the dancers how to perform them.
- chorography — the technique of mapping regions
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
- chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
- chromograph — (obsolete) chromolithograph.
- chromoplasm — chromatin.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- chronograph — an accurate instrument for recording small intervals of time
- chrysograph — a manuscript, especially of the Middle Ages, written in gold or gold and silver ink.
- chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
- chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
- clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
- coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
- coleopteral — of or relating to the Coleoptera
- 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
- collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.