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12-letter words containing p, i

  • cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
  • cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
  • cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
  • 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.
  • circle graph — pie chart.
  • circumscript — Rare. limited or confined.
  • citlaltepetl — a volcano in SE Mexico, in central Veracruz state: the highest peak in the country. Height: 5636 m (18 492 ft), though this is disputed between different sources
  • city company — (in Britain) a corporation that represents one of the historic trade guilds of London
  • cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
  • claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
  • clamjamphrie — rubbish
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • clapper rail — a long-billed rail, Rallus longirostris, of coastal marshes of the Americas, having a harsh, cackling cry.
  • cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
  • clipper ship — clipper (def 4).
  • clipper-ship — a person or thing that clips or cuts.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • clonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
  • close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
  • clovis point — flint projectile dating from the 10th millennium bc
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • co-operative — A co-operative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
  • 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.
  • coadaptation — the state of two or more things adapting to one another
  • coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
  • coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
  • coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
  • collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
  • colposcopist — an instrument that magnifies the cells of the cervix and vagina to permit direct observation and study of the living tissue.
  • come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
  • comma splice — comma fault.
  • common snipe — a bird, Gallinago gallinago, of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
  • compact disc — Compact discs are small shiny discs that contain music or computer information. The abbreviation CD is also used.
  • compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
  • companionate — resembling, appropriate to, or acting as a companion
  • companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
  • company time — the regular hours during which employees are expected to work
  • comparatists — Plural form of comparatist.
  • comparatives — Plural form of comparative.
  • compartition — (obsolete) The act of dividing into parts or compartments.
  • 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.
  • compatriotic — Of or relating to compatriots.
  • compellation — appellation
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