12-letter words containing n, a, p, r
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
- canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
- cap'n crunch — Captain Crunch
- caparisoning — Present participle of caparison.
- cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
- capricornean — born under or characteristic of Capricorn
- capricornian — a person born under the sign of Capricorn, usually between December 22nd and January 19th.
- car expenses — incidental money spent on the operation of a car during the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
- carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
- cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
- carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
- carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- 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
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
- 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).
- ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
- chairmanship — The chairmanship of a committee or organization is the fact of being its chairperson. Someone's chairmanship can also mean the period during which they are chairperson.
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
- chip carving — wood carving, usually executed with a knife and characterized by small incisions and simple geometrical patterns.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chota nagpur — a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica
- christophany — an appearance or emergence of Christ following his crucifixion
- chronographs — Plural form of chronograph.
- chronography — an arrangement of past events
- chronophobia — Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
- chrysophanol — (organic compound) A chemical compound found in rhubarb.
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
- compartition — (obsolete) The act of dividing into parts or compartments.
- compartments — Plural form of compartment.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.