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12-letter words containing l, e, p, r

  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • capercaillie — a large European woodland grouse, Tetrao urogallus, having a black plumage and fan-shaped tail in the male
  • capercailzie — Alternative form of capercaillie.
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • caterpillars — Plural form of caterpillar.
  • caterpillers — Archaic spelling of caterpillarst; Plural form of caterpiller.
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
  • cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
  • ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
  • cervical cap — a plastic or rubber, thimble-shaped contraceptive that is fitted over the cervix to prevent sperm from entering the uterus
  • chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
  • charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
  • charles epee — Charles Michel, Abbé de l', 1712–89, French priest and teacher of the deaf: pioneer in the development of sign language.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
  • chlorophenol — any of three isomers having the formula C 6 H 5 ClO, derived from chlorine and phenol, used chiefly as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes.
  • chlorophytes — Plural form of chlorophyte.
  • chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
  • chopper tool — a core tool of flint or stone, with a transverse cutting edge, characteristic of cultures in Asia and parts of the Middle East and Europe
  • 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
  • churchpeople — people belonging to a church
  • circle graph — pie chart.
  • 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.
  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • claptrappery — the art of eliciting applause
  • clergyperson — a member of the clergy
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
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