11-letter words containing p, r, e, i
- 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
- computerize — To computerize a system, process, or type of work means to arrange for a lot of the work to be done by computer.
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- conscripted — enrolled for compulsory service, esp military service
- conscriptee — a person who has been drafted for military service; conscript.
- cooper city — a town in SE Florida.
- cooper pair — a pair of weakly bound electrons responsible for the transfer of charge in a superconducting material
- cooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperation — joint operation or action
- cooperative — A cooperative 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.
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- copolymeric — of or relating to a copolymer
- copper iris — an iris, Iris fulva, found from the Gulf Coast to southern Illinois, having copper-colored or reddish-brown flowers.
- copper wire — a type of wire made from copper used in electrics
- coppersmith — a person who works copper or copper alloys
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copy editor — A copy editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.