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15-letter words containing p, a, c, e

  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blenheim palace — a palace in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: built (1705–22) by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 1st Duke of Marlborough as a reward from the nation for his victory at Blenheim; gardens laid out by Henry Wise and Capability Brown; birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (1874)
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • box the compass — to name the compass points in order
  • brachial plexus — a network of nerves in the armpits and neck, innervating the shoulders, arms, and hands.
  • brachiocephalic — of, relating to, or supplying the arm and head
  • brake parachute — a parachute attached to the rear of a vehicle and opened to assist braking
  • breathing space — A breathing space is a short period of time between two activities in which you can recover from the first activity and prepare for the second one.
  • brussels carpet — a worsted carpet with a heavy pile formed by uncut loops of wool on a linen warp
  • buryat republic — a constituent republic of SE central Russia, on Lake Baikal: mountainous, with forests covering over half the total area. Capital: Ulan-Ude. Pop: 981 000 (2002). Area: 351 300 sq km (135 608 sq miles)
  • cabinet picture — a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cabinet scraper — a scraper used in preparing a wood surface for sanding.
  • cache la poudre — a river in N Colorado, flowing N and E to the South Platte River. 126 miles (203 km) long.
  • calf diphtheria — a disease of the throat in young calves caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum, resulting in breathing difficulty and a painful cough
  • calliper splint — a splint consisting of two metal rods with straps attached, for supporting or exerting tension on the leg
  • callippic cycle — a period equal to four Metonic cycles less one day, proposed by Callippus to correct the Metonic cycle.
  • camera operator — a person who operates a film or television camera
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • cancel a policy — If you cancel a policy, you terminate a contract of insurance.
  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
  • cape finisterre — a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland
  • cape gooseberry — a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries
  • cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
  • capital expense — A capital expense is the cost of acquiring or making improvements to fixed assets.
  • capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
  • capital letters — a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r : used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc.
  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
  • cardinal spider — a large house spider, Tegenaria parietina
  • caribbean plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, encompassing the Central American portion of North America, the Caribbean Sea, and the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico, as well as the Leeward and Windward Islands; bordered north and south by the North and South American Plates and west by the Cocos Plate.
  • carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cartesian plane — Usually, Cartesian coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates for locating a point on a plane (Cartesian plane) by its distance from each of two intersecting lines, or in space by its distance from each of three planes intersecting at a point.
  • cartesian space — ordinary two- or three-dimensional space.
  • cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
  • cassette player — A cassette player is a machine that is used for playing cassettes and sometimes also recording them.
  • cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • castner process — a process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide, devised by Hamilton Young Castner (1858–98)
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • cephalochordate — any chordate animal of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a fishlike body and no vertebral column; lancelet
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