11-letter words containing p, e, n
- centerpiece — The centerpiece of something is the best or most interesting part of it.
- centerpunch — to mark with a center punch.
- centipoises — Plural form of centipoise.
- 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
- centrepiece — The centrepiece of something is the best or most interesting part of it.
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- 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.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- championess — a female champion
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- 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.
- 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
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
- chronoscope — an instrument that registers small intervals of time on a dial, cathode-ray tube, etc
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- codependent — A codependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
- coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
- coleopteron — a member of a large order of insects having the front wings modified as hard wing-cases, and comprising the beetles and weevils
- colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.