11-letter words containing p, c, e
- conceptacle — a flask-shaped cavity containing the reproductive organs in some algae and fungi
- conceptions — Plural form of conception.
- conceptious — prolific or fruitful
- conceptuses — Plural form of conceptus.
- concipiency — the quality of being concipient
- condisciple — a fellow disciple or a fellow student
- cone pepper — a tropical, woody pepper plant, Capsicum annuum conoides, having upright, cone-shaped, very pungent fruit of red, yellow, or purple.
- cone pulley — (on a lathe) a pulley consisting of a conelike arrangement of graduated, concentric pulleys for driving the headstock at different speeds.
- conscripted — enrolled for compulsory service, esp military service
- conscriptee — a person who has been drafted for military service; conscript.
- conspecific — (of animals or plants) belonging to the same species
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- constipates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constipate.
- constuprate — to rape or violate
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- contemplant — absorbed in contemplation
- contemplate — If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
- contraplete — either of two opposed and complementary elements in a relationship.
- contrecoups — Plural form of contrecoup.
- contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
- cooper city — a town in SE Florida.
- 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.
- cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
- coopetition — Collaboration between business competitors, in the hope of mutually beneficial results.
- coparcenary — a form of joint ownership of property, esp joint heirship
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- copingstone — a stone that tops or forms part of the top of a wall
- copiousness — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- copolyester — A polyester that has been modified by the addition of other chemicals.
- copolymeric — of or relating to a copolymer
- copper belt — a region of Central Africa, along the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo: rich deposits of copper
- copper iris — an iris, Iris fulva, found from the Gulf Coast to southern Illinois, having copper-colored or reddish-brown flowers.
- copper loss — Copper loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current, when conductors were traditionally made of copper.
- copper spot — a disease of grasses characterized by coppery or orange spore masses covering the blades, caused by a fungus, Gloeocercospora sorghi.
- copper wire — a type of wire made from copper used in electrics
- copper-leaf — a Pacific Islands plant, Acalypha wilkesiana, of the spurge family, having showy, bronzy-green, usually red-mottled foliage and grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copperplate — a polished copper plate on which a design has been etched or engraved
- coppersmith — a person who works copper or copper alloys
- coprocessor — a microprocessor circuit that operates alongside and supplements the capabilities of the main processor, providing, for example, high-speed arithmetic
- coprosterol — a compound, C27H47OH, that is present in faeces and is formed by the reduction of cholesterol by intestinal bacteria
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copy editor — A copy editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- copy member — copybook
- copy module — copybook
- copy taster — a person who selects or approves text for publication, esp in a periodical
- copyediting — Alternative spelling of copy editing.