10-letter words containing p, c, e
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- crab apple — A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crappiness — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- creep-feed — to feed (animals) in a creep feeder.
- creepiness — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- creepingly — in a creeping manner
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crepe hair — artificial hair, usually plaited and made of wool or vegetable fibre, used in theatrical make-up
- crepe sole — a shoe sole made of crepe rubber
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crepitate.
- crepuscule — twilight; dusk
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- crispiness — The state of being crispy.
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- crosspiece — a transverse beam, joist, etc
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- crowkeeper — a person who guards crops from crows
- crownpiece — the piece forming or fitting the top of something
- cryoprobes — Plural form of cryoprobe.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.