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12-letter words containing c, i, n, e, p

  • candied peel — fruit skin which has been impregnated or encrusted with sugar or syrup, esp that of citrus fruits
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
  • cape jasmine — a widely cultivated gardenia shrub, Gardenia jasminoides
  • cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
  • capricornean — born under or characteristic of Capricorn
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • catching pen — a pen adjacent to a shearer's stand containing the sheep ready for shearing
  • centerpieces — Plural form of centerpiece.
  • centuplicate — to increase 100 times
  • ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
  • chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
  • change point — a point to which a foresight and backsight are taken in levelling; turning point
  • chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
  • chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
  • chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
  • chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
  • chimneypiece — A chimneypiece is the same as a mantlepiece.
  • chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
  • chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
  • chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
  • chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
  • chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
  • christophene — chayote.
  • cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
  • cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
  • cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • co-opetition — cooperation between competitors in business, esp in the computer industry
  • co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
  • co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
  • co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
  • co-recipient — one of two or more recipients, as of an award.
  • coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
  • coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
  • common snipe — a bird, Gallinago gallinago, of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
  • companionate — resembling, appropriate to, or acting as a companion
  • company time — the regular hours during which employees are expected to work
  • compassioned — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
  • compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
  • compellation — appellation
  • compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
  • compensating — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
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