11-letter words containing p, r, e, c, i
- carpinteria — a town in SW California.
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- caterpillar — A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
- caterpiller — Archaic spelling of caterpillar.
- celery pine — a New Zealand gymnosperm tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with celerylike shoots and useful wood: family Phyllocladaceae
- centerpiece — The centerpiece of something is the best or most interesting part of it.
- centrepiece — The centrepiece of something is the best or most interesting part of it.
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- 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
- 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.
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- 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.
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
- chilipepper — an edible, crimson rockfish, Sebastes goodei, of coastal waters off California.
- chip heater — a domestic water heater that burns chips of wood
- chip slicer — a machine or tool for cutting chips
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- 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.
- cider press — a press for crushing apples for cider.
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- cider-press — a type of press used to extract the juice from apples to make cider
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- cire perdue — a method of casting bronze, in which a mould is formed around a wax pattern, which is subsequently melted and drained away
- 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.
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- 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.
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- competitors — a person, team, company, etc., that competes; rival.
- competitory — competitive.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- compressing — Present participle of compress.
- compression — the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
- compressive — compressing or having the power or capacity to compress
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
- compromiser — a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
- compromises — Plural form of compromise.
- computerise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerize.
- computerist — a computer user