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11-letter words containing p, a, t

  • cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
  • cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
  • ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
  • culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
  • culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
  • cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • cuspidation — decoration using cusps
  • custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
  • custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
  • custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
  • cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
  • cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
  • cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
  • cystoplasty — (surgery) Repair to the urinary bladder.
  • cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
  • cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
  • dalton plan — a system devised to encourage pupils to learn and develop at their own speed, using libraries and other sources to complete long assignments
  • dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
  • das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
  • data packet — packet
  • datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
  • dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
  • day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
  • decapitated — With the head removed.
  • decapitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decapitate.
  • decapitator — One who decapitates.
  • decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
  • decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
  • deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
  • deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
  • deep-seated — A deep-seated problem, feeling, or belief is difficult to change because its causes have been there for a long time.
  • delapidated — Misspelling of dilapidated.
  • delipidated — Simple past tense and past participle of delipidate.
  • dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
  • dental pulp — pulp (def 4).
  • departement — an administrative department
  • departments — Plural form of department.
  • depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
  • depauperate — poor; impoverished
  • dephlegmate — to remove watery substances from (acids or spirits) in order to purify
  • deplanement — Disembarking from an aircraft.
  • deploration — the act of deploring
  • deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
  • depopulated — (of a place) reduced in population
  • depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
  • depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
  • deportation — the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
  • depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
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