11-letter words containing o, p, e, l, i
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- compactible — able to be made compact
- companiable — sociable
- compilement — a compilation
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- complecting — Present participle of complect.
- complection — the natural color, texture, and appearance of the skin, especially of the face: a clear, smooth, rosy complexion.
- completions — Plural form of completion.
- completists — Plural form of completist.
- complex ion — a charged complex. Compare complex (def 10).
- complexions — Plural form of complexion.
- compliances — Plural form of compliance.
- complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- complicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate.
- compliments — a greeting of respect or regard
- compositely — In a composite manner.
- compossible — possible in coexistence with something else
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compulsives — Plural form of compulsive.
- condisciple — a fellow disciple or a fellow student
- copolymeric — of or relating to a copolymer
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- cosmopolite — an animal or plant that occurs in most parts of the world
- coup d'oeil — a quick glance
- crop circle — any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- cycloplegia — paralysis of the muscles that adjust the shape of the lens of the eye, resulting in loss of ability to focus
- cycloplegic — paralysis of the intraocular muscles.
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- deploration — the act of deploring
- deploringly — In a deploring manner.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.