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11-letter words containing m, o, p

  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • campo santo — a cemetery
  • capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
  • caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
  • capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
  • cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
  • carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
  • cgi program — Common Gateway Interface
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • champignons — Plural form of champignon.
  • championess — a female champion
  • championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
  • champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
  • cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
  • chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
  • chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
  • chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
  • chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
  • chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
  • chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
  • chromograph — (obsolete) chromolithograph.
  • chromophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
  • chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
  • chromophore — a group of atoms in a chemical compound that are responsible for the colour of the compound
  • chromoplasm — chromatin.
  • chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
  • chromoscope — a piece of equipment that is used to examine different aspects of colour including, for example, intensity
  • chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
  • cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
  • circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
  • cleptomania — kleptomania
  • come up for — When someone or something comes up for consideration or action of some kind, the time arrives when they have to be considered or dealt with.
  • comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
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