10-letter words containing c, i, p, a
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- compliable — compliant
- compliance — a disposition to yield to or comply with others
- compliancy — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicacy — the condition or quality of being complicated
- complicant — (of the elytra of a beetle) overlapping
- complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret
- constipate — to cause constipation in
- cooptation — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
- coping saw — a handsaw with a U-shaped frame used for cutting curves in a material too thick for a fret saw
- coprolalia — obsessive use of obscene or foul language
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- crappiness — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- crepe hair — artificial hair, usually plaited and made of wool or vegetable fibre, used in theatrical make-up
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crepitate.
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- crispinian — Saint, See under Crispin, Saint.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cyclic amp — cyclic adenosine monophosphate: a constituent of biological cells, responsible for triggering processes that are dependent on hormones
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- cynophobia — an irrational fear of dogs
- cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- cytopathic — of or relating to cytopathy
- d particle — D meson.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.