10-letter words containing p, e, r, a, c
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chaparejos — chaps1
- chaperoned — 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.
- chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
- chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
- chapter 11 — the statute regarding the reorganization of a failing business empowering a court to allow the debtors to remain in control of the business to attempt to save it
- charge-cap — (formerly in Britain) to impose on (a local authority) an upper limit on the community charge it may levy
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- cheap-rate — charged at a lower rate
- cheapernet — (networking) (Or "thinnet") A colloquial term for thin-wire Ethernet (10base2) that uses RG58 coaxial cable instead of the full-spec "Yellow Cable".
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- co-operate — If you co-operate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people co-operate.
- co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- contracept — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- contrapose — to place in contraposition.
- cooperated — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cooperate.
- cooperator — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- coparcener — a person who inherits an estate as coheir with others
- copartners — Plural form of copartner.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
- copper age — a phase in some human cultures between a Stone Age and a Bronze Age, characterized by the introduction and development of copper tools and weapons: in the Old World this phase is commonly thought of as being part of their Bronze Age
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- copperware — Articles made from copper.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- crab apple — A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.