10-letter words containing c, i, p, a
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
- camp david — the US president's retreat in the Appalachian Mountains, Maryland: scene of the Camp David Agreement (Sept, 1978) between Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel, mediated by Jimmy Carter, which outlined a framework for establishing peace in the Middle East. This agreement was the basis of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt signed in Washington (March, 1979)
- camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campignian — of or relating to a Mesolithic and Neolithic technological facies characterized by picks and tranchets.
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- cane piece — (in the Caribbean) a field of sugar cane, esp a peasant's isolated field
- canophilia — the love of dogs
- canophobia — an abnormal fear of dogs
- cant strip — an inclined or beveled strip of wood, for changing the pitch of a roof slope or for rounding out the angle between a flat roof and an adjoining parapet.
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capacitate — to make legally competent
- capacities — the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
- capacitive — of electrical capacitance
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- capitalist — A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
- capitalize — If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself.
- capitation — a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per head
- capitative — Per head; capitatim.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitolian — of or relating to the Capitoline
- capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- caponizing — Present participle of caponize.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- cappadocia — an ancient region of E Asia Minor famous for its horses
- cappuccino — Cappuccino is coffee which is made using milk and has froth and sometimes powdered chocolate on top.
- capriccios — Plural form of capriccio.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.