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11-letter words containing p, c, r

  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • bicorporate — having two bodies
  • big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
  • bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
  • cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • camp robber — Canada jay
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • canopic jar — (in ancient Egypt) one of four containers with tops in the form of animal heads of the gods, for holding the entrails of a mummy
  • canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
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