13-letter words containing p, c, e
- chimney piece — mantelpiece
- chimney place — an open hearth.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
- chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
- chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
- choreographer — A choreographer is someone who invents the movements for a ballet or other dance and tells the dancers how to perform them.
- choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
- chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chosen people — any of various peoples believing themselves to be chosen by God, esp the Jews
- chromatophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
- chromatophore — a cell in the skin of frogs, chameleons, etc, in which pigment is concentrated or dispersed, causing the animal to change colour
- chromoprotein — any of a group of conjugated proteins, such as haemoglobin, in which the protein is joined to a coloured compound, such as a metal-containing porphyrin
- chromospheres — Plural form of chromosphere.
- chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
- chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
- chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
- chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
- chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
- chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
- church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- clippety-clop — the sound struck by the hoofs of a horse trotting on pavement, or any staccato, rhythmic sound resembling it.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-dependence — joint dependence between two or more beings
- co-dependency — a state of mutual dependence between two people, esp when one partner relies emotionally on supporting and caring for the other partner
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- code napoleon — the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law
- code position — (character) An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
- cogent prolog — (language) A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin