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11-letter words containing e, p, a, s, o, r

  • box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
  • carpospores — Plural form of carpospore.
  • caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
  • ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
  • chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
  • cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
  • compensator — a person or thing that compensates
  • complainers — Plural form of complainer.
  • comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
  • comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
  • constuprate — to rape or violate
  • copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
  • copy taster — a person who selects or approves text for publication, esp in a periodical
  • copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
  • creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
  • creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
  • crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
  • cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
  • damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
  • delors plan — a plan for closer European union, originated by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission (1985–94)
  • dermoplasty — skin grafting.
  • desperadoes — Plural form of desperado.
  • desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
  • diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
  • diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
  • disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
  • disapprover — One who disapproves.
  • disapproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disapprove.
  • disceptator — a person who disputes or disagrees
  • dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
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