10-letter words containing p, o, c, s
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- caespitose — growing in dense tufts
- caipiroska — a cocktail drink containing vodka, lime juice, sugar, and crushed ice, based on the Caipirinha cocktail but with vodka replacing the Brazilian rum-like spirit Cachaça
- calliopsis — coreopsis
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
- campstools — Plural form of campstool.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
- cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
- cape smoke — South African brandy
- capo tasto — a device fitted across all the strings of a guitar, banjo, etc, so as to raise the pitch of each string simultaneously
- capriccios — Plural form of capriccio.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carpospore — a sexual spore produced by red algae after fertilization of the carpogonium
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cassiopeia — the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- celioscope — celoscope.
- celioscopy — celoscope.
- censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
- centipoise — one hundredth of a poise. 1 centipoise is equal to 0.001 newton second per square metre
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- chaparajos — (in Mexico) chaps.
- chaparejos — chaps1
- chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
- cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
- chop-house — a restaurant specializing in chop, steaks, and the like.
- chophouses — Plural form of chophouse.
- choppiness — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
- christophe — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader; king of Haiti (1811–20)
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- cis person — a person who is cisgender or cissexual.
- cispontine — on the near side of the bridge
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- click stop — a control device, as in a camera, that can be turned or rotated so that when it reaches a specific setting it engages with an audible click.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.