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11-letter words containing p, o, c

  • chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
  • chug report — (humour)   From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
  • chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
  • 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
  • cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
  • circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
  • cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
  • cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
  • clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
  • clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
  • clean up on — to defeat; beat
  • cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
  • cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
  • cleptomania — kleptomania
  • clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
  • clock speed — clock rate
  • clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
  • clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
  • 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.
  • clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
  • close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
  • closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
  • closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
  • closed-loop — of or relating to a processing system in which effluents are recycled, that is, treated and returned for reuse.
  • clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
  • clothes-peg — a clothespin.
  • clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
  • clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
  • clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
  • cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
  • cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
  • co-producer — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
  • coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
  • coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
  • cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
  • cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
  • code police — (humour)   (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
  • codependent — A codependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
  • codeveloper — a fellow developer
  • coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
  • coffee shop — A coffee shop is a kind of restaurant that sells coffee, tea, cakes, and sometimes sandwiches and light meals.
  • coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
  • coleopteral — of or relating to the Coleoptera
  • coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
  • coleopteron — a member of a large order of insects having the front wings modified as hard wing-cases, and comprising the beetles and weevils
  • coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
  • collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
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