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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.
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