11-letter words containing c, o, p, e, s
- championess — a female champion
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
- cherepovets — city in NE Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir: pop. 319,000
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- christopher — Saint. 3rd century ad, Christian martyr; patron saint of travellers
- chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
- chromoscope — a piece of equipment that is used to examine different aspects of colour including, for example, intensity
- chronoscope — an instrument that registers small intervals of time on a dial, cathode-ray tube, etc
- chrysophyte — any of the golden alga species
- chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
- 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
- cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clock speed — clock rate
- clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closed-loop — of or relating to a processing system in which effluents are recycled, that is, treated and returned for reuse.
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- 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.
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- coffee shop — A coffee shop is a kind of restaurant that sells coffee, tea, cakes, and sometimes sandwiches and light meals.
- coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
- 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.
- colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- colposcopes — Plural form of colposcope.
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- compensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compensate.
- compensator — a person or thing that compensates
- competences — Plural form of competence.