11-letter words containing o, p, n
- corn picker — a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
- corn-picker — a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
- corner shop — A corner shop is a small shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells mainly food and household goods.
- cornucopian — Classical Mythology. a horn containing food, drink, etc., in endless supply, said to have been a horn of the goat Amalthaea.
- cornucopias — Plural form of cornucopia.
- coronagraph — an optical instrument used to simulate an eclipse of the sun so that the faint solar corona can be studied
- coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
- corporating — Present participle of corporate.
- corporation — A corporation is a large business or company.
- corpulently — In a corpulent manner.
- corresponds — Have a close similarity; match or agree almost exactly.
- corruptions — Plural form of corruption.
- corruptness — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- cosponsored — Simple past tense and past participle of cosponsor.
- cotransport — the transport of one solute across a membrane from a region of low concentration of another solute to a region of high concentration of that solute
- counter-pin — bedspread.
- countercoup — the act of overthrowing a government that gained power via a coup d'état
- counterpace — a countermove
- counterpane — A counterpane is a decorative cover on a bed.
- counterpart — Someone's or something's counterpart is another person or thing that has a similar function or position in a different place.
- counterplan — an opposing plan
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- counterploy — an opposing or retaliatory ploy
- counterpole — The exact opposite.
- counterpose — to place (something) in opposition to
- counterstep — an opposing step or measure
- countertops — Plural form of countertop.
- countertype — an opposite type
- coupon bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- cover point — a fielding position in the covers
- cow parsnip — any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
- cranioscopy — the study of the features of the human skull
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- crown point — town in NE N.Y., on Lake Champlain: site of a fort important in the French and Indian & the Revolutionary wars: pop. 2,100
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.
- cryptobiont — any organism that exhibits cryptobiosis
- cryptogenic — (esp of diseases) of unknown or obscure origin
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.