12-letter words containing p, e, n
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- clap eyes on — to catch sight of
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clergyperson — a member of the clergy
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-dependent — A co-dependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
- co-opetition — cooperation between competitors in business, esp in the computer industry
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- co-recipient — one of two or more recipients, as of an award.
- coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
- codependence — (uncountable) The state of being co-dependent.
- codependency — of or relating to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other person is psychologically dependent on the first in an unhealthy way.
- coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
- coffee spoon — a small spoon (smaller than a teaspoon) for stirring coffee
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- colonoscopes — Plural form of colonoscope.
- comeuppances — Plural form of comeuppance.
- common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
- common snipe — a bird, Gallinago gallinago, of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
- commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
- companionate — resembling, appropriate to, or acting as a companion
- company time — the regular hours during which employees are expected to work
- compartments — Plural form of compartment.
- compassioned — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compellation — appellation
- compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
- compensating — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- compensation — Compensation is money that someone who has experienced loss or suffering claims from the person or organization responsible, or from the state.
- compensative — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- competencies — Plural form of competency.
- competitions — Plural form of competition.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complections — Plural form of complection.
- complemental — complementary; completing.
- complemented — having a complement or complements.
- complementer — something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal.
- completement — (obsolete) Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
- completeness — complete
- complexation — the formation of a complex
- complexional — Relating to complexion.
- complexioned — of a specified complexion
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).