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10-letter words containing o, a, p, e, c

  • broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
  • cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
  • caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
  • caespitose — growing in dense tufts
  • calciphobe — calcifuge.
  • calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
  • camelopard — giraffe
  • camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
  • camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
  • campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
  • camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
  • can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
  • can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
  • canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
  • cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
  • capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
  • cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
  • cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
  • cape smoke — South African brandy
  • capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
  • capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
  • capreolate — possessing or resembling tendrils
  • capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
  • cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
  • carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
  • carpospore — a sexual spore produced by red algae after fertilization of the carpogonium
  • carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
  • cartophile — a cartophilist
  • cassiopeia — the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda
  • cellophane — Cellophane is a thin, transparent material that is used to wrap things.
  • cephalonia — a mountainous island in the Ionian Sea, the largest of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece. Pop: 36 404 (2001). Area: 935 sq km (365 sq miles)
  • cephalopod — any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles. The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus
  • ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
  • cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
  • chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
  • championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
  • channel op — (messaging)   /chan'l op/ (Or "op", "chan op", "chop") Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel. These privileges include the right to kick users, to change various status bits and to make others into CHOPs. The full form, "channel operator", is almost never used.
  • chaparejos — chaps1
  • chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
  • chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
  • charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
  • cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
  • chopfallen — chapfallen
  • chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
  • clapometer — a device that measures applause
  • clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
  • clonazepam — a medication used to treat conditions that involve seizures
  • cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
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