11-letter words containing s, p, a, t
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.
- chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
- cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparators — Plural form of comparator.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- compensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compensate.
- compensator — a person or thing that compensates
- complaisant — If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.
- complicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate.
- compostable — capable of being used as compost
- conspirator — A conspirator is a person who joins a conspiracy.
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- constipates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constipate.
- constuprate — to rape or violate
- contrapasso — The concept that the punishment of an individual's soul in Hell corresponds to the sin that person committed on earth.
- copy taster — a person who selects or approves text for publication, esp in a periodical
- corporatism — Corporatism is the organization and control of a country by groups who share a common interest or profession.
- corporatist — You use corporatist to describe organizations, ideas, or systems which follow the principles of corporatism.
- cotransport — the transport of one solute across a membrane from a region of low concentration of another solute to a region of high concentration of that solute
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- creepypasta — (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
- cross-party — Cross-party activities involve two or more political parties. A cross-party group consists of members from two or more political parties.
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- cryptograms — Plural form of cryptogram.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cystoplasty — (surgery) Repair to the urinary bladder.
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.