12-letter words containing o, p, a, c
- 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.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryptococcal — of, relating to, or caused by the Cryptococcus neoformans fungus
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- 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
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- 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
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- dallapiccola — Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1904–75, Italian composer of twelve-tone music. His works include the opera Il Prigioniero (1944–48) and the ballet Marsia (1948)
- 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
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- diplocardiac — having the right and left sides of the heart somewhat or completely divided, as in birds and mammals.
- diplomatical — Obsolete form of diplomatic.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.