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11-letter words containing p, t, e

  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
  • cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
  • capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
  • capacitated — Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.
  • capacitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capacitate.
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capitalised — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • capitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of capitalize.
  • capitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitalize.
  • capitellate — (botany) Having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula.
  • capitulated — Simple past tense and past participle of capitulate.
  • capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
  • capped-rate — having a fixed upper limit
  • cappelletti — small squares of pasta containing a savoury mixture of meat, cheese, or vegetables
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • captivative — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
  • carpentaria — Gulf ofarm of the Arafura Sea, indenting the N coast of Australia: c. 480 mi (772 km) long; 400 mi (644 km) wide
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
  • carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
  • carpet tile — a tile made of carpeting material that is used for flooring.
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
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