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13-letter words containing c, p, o

  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
  • campanologist — the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.
  • camphoraceous — similar to camphor
  • camping stool — a stool which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
  • cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • capital stock — the par value of the total share capital that a company is authorized to issue
  • capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
  • capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
  • capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
  • capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
  • carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
  • carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carrot-topped — having red hair
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
  • case soap iii — Version of SOAP assembly language for IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
  • caveat emptor — Caveat emptor means 'let the buyer beware', and is a warning to someone buying something that it is their responsibility to identify and accept any faults in it.
  • cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
  • cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
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