10-letter words containing i, a, p, e
- calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- cane piece — (in the Caribbean) a field of sugar cane, esp a peasant's isolated field
- capacitate — to make legally competent
- capacities — the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
- capacitive — of electrical capacitance
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalize — If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself.
- capitative — Per head; capitatim.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capsizable — able to be capsized
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
- captivance — captivity
- captivated — Simple past tense and past participle of captivate.
- captivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of captivate.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- carpe diem — enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future
- carpentier — Georges (ʒɔrʒ), known as Gorgeous Georges. 1894–1975, French boxer: world light-heavyweight champion (1920–22)
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- cassiopeia — the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda
- catalepsis — Dated form of catalepsy.
- cataleptic — a physical condition usually associated with catatonic schizophrenia, characterized by suspension of sensation, muscular rigidity, fixity of posture, and often by loss of contact with environment.
- catapeltic — Pertaining to a catapult or to catapults.
- cathepsins — Plural form of cathepsin.
- cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
- cephalexin — a cephalosporin antibiotic prescribed for mild infections of the skin, ears, throat, lungs, or urinary tract
- cephalitis — encephalitis.
- cephalonia — a mountainous island in the Ionian Sea, the largest of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece. Pop: 36 404 (2001). Area: 935 sq km (365 sq miles)
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- chainplate — a metal plate on the side of a vessel, to which the shrouds are attached
- champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes