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12-letter words containing o, p, e

  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
  • camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
  • cameraperson — a camera operator
  • camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
  • canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
  • cape buffalo — a large, black, nearly hairless, very fierce buffalo (Syncerus caffer) of South Africa, with horns joined at the bases to form a helmetlike structure
  • cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
  • cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
  • cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
  • capricornean — born under or characteristic of Capricorn
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
  • cassiopeia a — a very strong radio and X-ray source in the constellation Cassiopeia, identified as the remnant of a supernova thought to have occurred in the late 17th century
  • castile soap — a hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
  • cataphoreses — Plural form of cataphoresis.
  • cataphoresis — electrophoresis
  • catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • cebocephalic — Exhibiting or relating to cebocephaly.
  • cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
  • cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
  • cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
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