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11-letter words containing p, a, e, o

  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
  • 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
  • cape-glossa — Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
  • carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
  • carpospores — Plural form of carpospore.
  • caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
  • cattle-stop — a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered
  • cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
  • cephalocele — a protrusion of the brain or cranial matter through an opening in the skull
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
  • cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
  • 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
  • chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalcophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for sulfur.
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • championess — a female champion
  • channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
  • chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
  • chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
  • choreograph — When someone choreographs a ballet or other dance, they invent the steps and movements and tell the dancers how to perform them.
  • chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
  • chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
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