11-letter words containing p, c, e
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- championess — a female champion
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chapel hill — a city in central North Carolina.
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- 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.
- chaptalized — Simple past tense and past participle of chaptalize.
- chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
- cheeseparer — a skinflint or miser
- cheesepress — the equipment used to press cheese curd
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- cherepovets — city in NE Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir: pop. 319,000
- cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
- cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
- chesspieces — Plural form of chesspiece.
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chilipepper — an edible, crimson rockfish, Sebastes goodei, of coastal waters off California.
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chip heater — a domestic water heater that burns chips of wood
- chip slicer — a machine or tool for cutting chips
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
- chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
- chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar