11-letter words containing c, o, p, a
- 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
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- 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.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
- coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
- coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
- cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
- cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
- 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).
- collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- 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.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- compactable — Capable of being compacted.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- compactible — able to be made compact
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compaginate — to join or unite
- companiable — sociable
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.