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12-letter words containing i, p, e, c

  • cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
  • cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
  • chemotrophic — any organism that oxidizes inorganic or organic compounds as its principal energy source.
  • chemotropism — the growth response of an organism, esp a plant, to a chemical stimulus
  • chi particle — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
  • chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
  • chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
  • childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
  • chili pepper — chili (sense 1) chili (sense 3)
  • chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
  • chimneypiece — A chimneypiece is the same as a mantlepiece.
  • chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
  • chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
  • chip jewelry — (jargon)   A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
  • chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
  • chirographer — Alternative form of chirographist.
  • 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.
  • chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
  • chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
  • christophene — chayote.
  • cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
  • cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
  • 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
  • cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
  • circle graph — pie chart.
  • citlaltepetl — a volcano in SE Mexico, in central Veracruz state: the highest peak in the country. Height: 5636 m (18 492 ft), though this is disputed between different sources
  • claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
  • clamjamphrie — rubbish
  • clapper rail — a long-billed rail, Rallus longirostris, of coastal marshes of the Americas, having a harsh, cackling cry.
  • cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
  • clipper ship — clipper (def 4).
  • clipper-ship — a person or thing that clips or cuts.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • co-operative — A co-operative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
  • co-opetition — cooperation between competitors in business, esp in the computer industry
  • co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
  • co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
  • co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
  • co-recipient — one of two or more recipients, as of an award.
  • coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
  • coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
  • coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
  • come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
  • comma splice — comma fault.
  • common snipe — a bird, Gallinago gallinago, of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
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