11-letter words containing n, a, p, y
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
- carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
- company man — an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- complacency — Complacency is being complacent about a situation.
- compliantly — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- conspirancy — Misspelling of conspiracy.
- contraparty — the other person or institution entering into a financial contract or transaction: the default of a counterparty.
- coparcenary — a form of joint ownership of property, esp joint heirship
- coplanarity — being or operating in the same plane.
- copycatting — a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics, or follows the lead of another, as a child who says or does exactly the same as another child.
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- cranioscopy — the study of the features of the human skull
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- diaphaneity — the quality of being diaphanous; transparency.
- discrepancy — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- dispensably — in a dispensable manner
- downpayment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- downplaying — Present participle of downplay.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- enteropathy — A disease of the intestine, especially the small intestine.
- entomophagy — The eating of insects.
- epoxylignan — (organic compound) Any compound having a structure based on an epoxylignane.
- ethnography — The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
- expansively — In an expansive manner.
- expansivity — The amount a material expands or contracts per unit length due to a one-degree change in temperature.
- expectantly — In an expectant manner.
- explanatory — Serving to explain something.
- family plan — a special rate, especially of air passenger carriers, under which the head of a household purchasing a full-fare ticket may take other family members at reduced fares on certain days.
- fancy pants — Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.
- fancy-pants — Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.
- forepayment — prepayment
- funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.