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10-letter words containing p, a, c

  • campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
  • campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
  • camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
  • campignian — of or relating to a Mesolithic and Neolithic technological facies characterized by picks and tranchets.
  • campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
  • campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
  • campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
  • campstools — Plural form of campstool.
  • camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
  • campuswide — Throughout a campus.
  • can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
  • can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
  • can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
  • candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
  • candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
  • cane piece — (in the Caribbean) a field of sugar cane, esp a peasant's isolated field
  • canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
  • canophilia — the love of dogs
  • canophobia — an abnormal fear of dogs
  • cant strip — an inclined or beveled strip of wood, for changing the pitch of a roof slope or for rounding out the angle between a flat roof and an adjoining parapet.
  • cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
  • cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
  • cap sleeve — a very short sleeve on a woman's dress, blouse, etc., fashioned by lengthening only the outer shoulder area of the garment to form a caplike extension
  • capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
  • capablanca — José Raúl (xoˈse raˈul), called Capa or the Chess Machine 1888–1942, Cuban chess player; world champion 1921–27
  • capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
  • capacitate — to make legally competent
  • capacities — the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
  • capacitive — of electrical capacitance
  • capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
  • capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
  • caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
  • cape blanc — a headland in N Tunisia: the northernmost point of Africa
  • cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
  • cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
  • cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
  • cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
  • cape smoke — South African brandy
  • cape verde — a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa
  • cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
  • cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
  • capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
  • capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
  • capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
  • capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
  • capitalist — A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
  • capitalize — If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself.
  • capitation — a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per head
  • capitative — Per head; capitatim.
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