11-letter words containing p, i, r, o
- c-odescript — (language) A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- 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.
- campaniform — shaped like a bell
- 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.
- 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
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- capernoited — capricious
- capernoitie — the head
- capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
- capricciosa — A pizza garnished with mushrooms, artichokes, ham and olives.
- capriccioso — to be played in a free and lively style
- capricornia — the regions of Australia in the tropic of Capricorn
- capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
- cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- cartophilic — relating to cartophily
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- 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
- cgi program — Common Gateway Interface
- 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.
- 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.
- child-proof — resistant to being opened, tampered with, or operated by a child: a childproof medicine bottle.
- chirography — handwriting; penmanship
- chiropodist — A chiropodist is a person whose job is to treat and care for people's feet.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chlorpicrin — chloropicrin
- christopher — Saint. 3rd century ad, Christian martyr; patron saint of travellers
- chromophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
- ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic strip — A comic strip is a series of drawings that tell a story, especially in a newspaper or magazine.
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.