11-letter words containing p, c, e
- cove stripe — a decorative stripe painted along the sheer strake of a vessel, esp of a sailing boat
- cover point — a fielding position in the covers
- cover price — the price of a newspaper or magazine
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- cpt theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- creepypasta — (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepe paper — Crepe paper is stretchy paper with an uneven surface. Coloured crepe paper is often used for making decorations.
- crepe shoes — shoes soled with crepe rubber
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- crime spree — a series of crimes committed in quick succession
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crop circle — any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cross press — a fall in wrestling using the weight of the body to pin an opponent's shoulders to the floor
- crosspieces — Plural form of crosspiece.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
- cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
- cryptogenic — (esp of diseases) of unknown or obscure origin
- cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
- cryptometer — an instrument used to determine the opacity of pigments and paints
- cryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its buds below the soil or water surface
- cryptozoite — a malarial parasite at the stage of development in its host before it enters the red blood cells
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.