10-letter words containing p, t, e
- contrapose — to place in contraposition.
- contrecoup — an injury, esp to the brain, that occurs at the opposite side of the body from that which was struck
- cooperated — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cooperate.
- cooperator — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copartners — Plural form of copartner.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copesettic — Misspelling of copacetic.
- coppertone — a reddish-brown color.
- coprolites — Plural form of coprolite.
- copromoter — a joint promoter
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- copyedited — Simple past tense and past participle of copyedit.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- corbiestep — one of a series of steps at the upper end wall of some gables
- coreceptor — (molecular biology) A cell surface receptor that binds a signaling molecule in addition to a primary receptor in order to facilitate ligand recognition and initiate a biological process, such as entry of a pathogen into a host cell.
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- corporeity — bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality
- correption — the shortening of vowels in pronunciation
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cost price — If something is sold at cost price, it is sold for the same price as it cost the seller to buy it.
- cotter pin — a split pin secured, after passing through holes in the parts to be attached, by spreading the ends
- counterpin — bedspread.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countertop — A countertop is a flat surface in a kitchen which is easily cleaned and on which you can prepare food.
- couplement — the action of coupling or the state of being coupled
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crepitate.
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium