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11-letter words containing o, p, a

  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • campo santo — a cemetery
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • canopic jar — (in ancient Egypt) one of four containers with tops in the form of animal heads of the gods, for holding the entrails of a mummy
  • canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capaciously — In a capacious manner.
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
  • cape pigeon — a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae
  • cape-glossa — Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
  • capitations — Plural form of capitation.
  • cappadocian — of or relating to Cappadocia or its inhabitants
  • capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
  • cappuccinos — Plural form of cappuccino.
  • capricciosa — A pizza garnished with mushrooms, artichokes, ham and olives.
  • capriccioso — to be played in a free and lively style
  • capricornia — the regions of Australia in the tropic of Capricorn
  • capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
  • caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • captivation — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
  • 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.
  • card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
  • cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
  • cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
  • cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
  • cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
  • cardophagus — a donkey
  • cargo pants — Cargo pants are large, loose pants with lots of pockets.
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
  • carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
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