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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
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