11-letter words containing p, a, c, t
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chaptalized — Simple past tense and past participle of chaptalize.
- chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.
- chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chip heater — a domestic water heater that burns chips of wood
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
- coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
- coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
- cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
- coleopteral — of or relating to the Coleoptera
- coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
- compactable — Capable of being compacted.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- compactible — able to be made compact
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compaginate — to join or unite
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- comparators — Plural form of comparator.
- compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.