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11-letter words containing c, o, p, l

  • bibliopolic — relating to bibliopoles
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capaciously — In a capacious manner.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape-glossa — Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
  • capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
  • caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
  • carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
  • cartophilic — relating to cartophily
  • cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
  • cattle-stop — a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered
  • cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
  • cephalocele — a protrusion of the brain or cranial matter through an opening in the skull
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
  • cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
  • ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
  • chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chalcophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for sulfur.
  • champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
  • channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
  • child-proof — resistant to being opened, tampered with, or operated by a child: a childproof medicine bottle.
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