12-letter words containing e, s, p, o
- catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
- ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
- ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- chapter stop — any of several markers placed at intervals on a DVD film, enabling the viewer to find and select particular scenes
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- cheesehopper — the larva of the cheese-fly, capable of a leaping movement using two claw-like mandibles which it also uses for digging
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chemotropism — the growth response of an organism, esp a plant, to a chemical stimulus
- chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- chlorophytes — Plural form of chlorophyte.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
- choreographs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of choreograph.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- christophene — chayote.
- chromophores — Plural form of chromophore.
- chromosphere — a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere extending from the photosphere to the corona and visible during a total eclipse of the sun
- chronoscopes — Plural form of chronoscope.
- chrysophytes — Plural form of chrysophyte.
- churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- clap eyes on — to catch sight of
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- clergyperson — a member of the clergy
- close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
- clothes pole — a post to which a clothesline is attached
- clothes prop — a long wooden pole with a forked end, used to raise a line of washing to enable it to catch the breeze
- clothes shop — a shop selling clothes
- clothespress — a closet, wardrobe, or chest in which to keep clothes
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
- coffee spoon — a small spoon (smaller than a teaspoon) for stirring coffee
- cold-pressed — (of an unrefined oil such as olive oil) produced by pressing the parent seed, nut, or grain at the lowest possible temperature without any further pressing
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
- coleopterous — belonging to the order Coleoptera
- colonoscopes — Plural form of colonoscope.
- colour phase — a seasonal change in the coloration of some animals
- come to pass — to take place
- comeuppances — Plural form of comeuppance.
- comma splice — comma fault.
- common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
- common snipe — a bird, Gallinago gallinago, of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
- commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.