11-letter words containing p, y, e
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
- berkeley fp — (language) A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
- berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- 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
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
- celery pine — a New Zealand gymnosperm tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with celerylike shoots and useful wood: family Phyllocladaceae
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
- 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.
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
- chrysophyte — any of the golden alga species
- chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- competently — having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
- competitory — competitive.
- complacency — Complacency is being complacent about a situation.
- componentry — the components of a machine, vehicle, stereo system, etc.
- compositely — In a composite manner.
- concipiency — the quality of being concipient
- cone pulley — (on a lathe) a pulley consisting of a conelike arrangement of graduated, concentric pulleys for driving the headstock at different speeds.
- cooper city — a town in SE Florida.
- coparcenary — a form of joint ownership of property, esp joint heirship
- copolyester — A polyester that has been modified by the addition of other chemicals.
- copolymeric — of or relating to a copolymer
- 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.
- copy member — copybook
- copy module — copybook
- copy taster — a person who selects or approves text for publication, esp in a periodical