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11-letter words containing e, p, a, y

  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • 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
  • candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
  • 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.
  • cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
  • chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
  • cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • chessplayer — a player of chess
  • chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
  • chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
  • clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
  • cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
  • compactedly — in a compacted manner
  • companywide — Extending throughout a company.
  • complacency — Complacency is being complacent about a situation.
  • coparcenary — a form of joint ownership of property, esp joint heirship
  • copy taster — a person who selects or approves text for publication, esp in a periodical
  • copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
  • corporately — of, for, or belonging to a corporation or corporations: a corporate executive; She considers the new federal subsidy just corporate welfare.
  • corporeally — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
  • cotemporary — contemporary
  • counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • creepypasta — (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
  • cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
  • cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
  • cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
  • cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
  • cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
  • cycloplegia — paralysis of the muscles that adjust the shape of the lens of the eye, resulting in loss of ability to focus
  • 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
  • dapple-gray — gray spotted with darker gray
  • dapple-grey — a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour
  • day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
  • delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
  • demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
  • depravingly — in a depraving manner
  • deprecatory — expressing disapproval; protesting
  • depredatory — Tending or designed to depredate.
  • deputy head — a vice-principal
  • dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
  • dermoplasty — skin grafting.
  • desparingly — In a despairing manner.
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