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11-letter words containing p, e, a, c

  • catchphrase — A catchphrase is a sentence or phrase which becomes popular or well-known, often because it is frequently used by a famous person.
  • caterpillar — A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
  • caterpiller — Archaic spelling of caterpillar.
  • cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
  • cattle-stop — a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered
  • cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
  • cedar apple — a brown gall on the branches of the juniper, produced by several rust fungi of the genus Gymnosporangium.
  • centre pass — a push or hit made in any direction to start the game or to restart the game after a goal has been scored
  • centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
  • cephalalgia — headache (def 1).
  • cephalalgic — relating to or affected by headache
  • cephalocele — a protrusion of the brain or cranial matter through an opening in the skull
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
  • cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
  • ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
  • ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
  • chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
  • chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
  • chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalcophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for sulfur.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cheeseparer — a skinflint or miser
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • chessplayer — a player of chess
  • chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
  • chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
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