12-letter words containing m, p, e
- camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
- camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
- cape jasmine — a widely cultivated gardenia shrub, Gardenia jasminoides
- cape matapan — a cape in S Greece, at the S central tip of the Peloponnese: the southern point of the mainland of Greece
- 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.
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
- cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
- 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
- ceramography — the study, analysis, and preparation of ceramic microstructures, usually for industrial use
- chamaephytes — Plural form of chamaephyte.
- chapter room — a room for the use of the chapter of a religious institution
- chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
- 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
- chimneypiece — A chimneypiece is the same as a mantlepiece.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- 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
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clamjamphrie — rubbish
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- come to pass — to take place
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- 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.
- companionate — resembling, appropriate to, or acting as a companion
- company time — the regular hours during which employees are expected to work
- comparatives — Plural form of comparative.
- compartments — Plural form of compartment.
- compass rose — a circle or decorative device printed on a map or chart showing the points of the compass measured from true north and usually magnetic north
- compassioned — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compellation — appellation