11-letter words containing p, a, c, i
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
- campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
- campaniform — shaped like a bell
- campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
- campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- 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.
- caniapiscau — a river in NE Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to the Larch River (Mélèzes) 575 miles (925 km) long.
- 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
- cap in hand — If you go cap in hand to someone, you ask them very humbly to give you something or to do something for you.
- cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
- capacitated — Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.
- capacitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capacitate.
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- 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
- capernoited — capricious
- capernoitie — the head
- capillaries — pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
- capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
- capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
- capillitium — a mass of very fine threads interspersed among the spores of certain fungi
- capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment