11-letter words containing p, a, r, i
- carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- carpentaria — Gulf ofarm of the Arafura Sea, indenting the N coast of Australia: c. 480 mi (772 km) long; 400 mi (644 km) wide
- carpet tile — a tile made of carpeting material that is used for flooring.
- carpinteria — a town in SW California.
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- cartophilic — relating to cartophily
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- caterpillar — A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
- caterpiller — Archaic spelling of caterpillar.
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- 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
- cgi program — Common Gateway Interface
- 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.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- 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.
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chip heater — a domestic water heater that burns chips of wood
- chirography — handwriting; penmanship
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- 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.
- comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- compilatory — of or relating to a compilation or compiler
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- comprimario — a secondary role in opera or ballet
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- conspirancy — Misspelling of conspiracy.
- conspirator — A conspirator is a person who joins a conspiracy.
- contraption — You can refer to a device or machine as a contraption, especially when it looks strange or you do not know what it is used for.
- coon rapids — a city in E Minnesota.
- cooper pair — a pair of weakly bound electrons responsible for the transfer of charge in a superconducting material
- cooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperation — joint operation or action
- cooperative — A cooperative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
- coplanarity — being or operating in the same plane.
- coprincipal — a joint principal