12-letter words containing c, a, s, p, r, i
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- garlic press — kitchen tool for crushing garlic
- garrison cap — overseas cap.
- gastroscopic — Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.
- graphic arts — any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypsographic — a branch of geography that deals with the measurement and mapping of the topography of the earth above sea level.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incorporates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incorporate.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- insect spray — a substance which can be sprayed in the home to kill insects
- inspectorate — the office or function of an inspector.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- interspacing — Present participle of interspace.
- interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- intrapsychic — Within the psyche or mind.
- intraspecies — existing or occurring within a species.
- ipecac syrup — a preparation containing ipecac in a syrupy medium, used as an emetic.
- laparoscopic — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
- linear space — vector space.
- liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
- macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
- masterpieces — Plural form of masterpiece.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- microamperes — Plural form of microampere.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- nonparasitic — Not parasitic.
- nonspherical — not spherical