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12-letter words containing n, o, p

  • country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
  • coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
  • craftsperson — an artisan
  • craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
  • cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
  • criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
  • crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
  • crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
  • crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
  • cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
  • crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
  • crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
  • crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
  • cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
  • cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
  • cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
  • cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
  • cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
  • cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
  • cunctipotent — (obsolete) almighty; all-powerful.
  • cuprammonium — an ion of copper oxide used (in solution) in the manufacture of rayon and other man-made fibres
  • curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
  • cushion pink — a low-growing mountain plant, Silene acaulis, of Europe and North America, having deep pink to purplish, solitary flowers and forming mosslike patches on rocky or barren ground.
  • cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
  • cyclopentane — a colourless insoluble cycloalkane found in petroleum and used mainly as a solvent. Formula: C5H10
  • cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
  • cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
  • cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
  • d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
  • danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
  • daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
  • de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
  • deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
  • decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
  • decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
  • decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
  • dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
  • delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
  • demi-pension — an arrangement whereby a guest or resident pays, usually at a fixed rate, for room, breakfast, and one other daily meal offered in a hotel or boardinghouse; half board. Compare modified American plan.
  • demonography — a treatise on demons.
  • deoppilation — the removal of obstructions
  • depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
  • depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
  • deportations — Plural form of deportation.
  • deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
  • depositation — the act of depositing
  • depositional — of or relating to a deposition
  • depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
  • depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
  • deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
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