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11-letter words containing s, p, o, t, e

  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
  • cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • cattle-stop — a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered
  • centipoises — Plural form of centipoise.
  • ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
  • ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
  • 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.
  • checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • cherepovets — city in NE Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir: pop. 319,000
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
  • christopher — Saint. 3rd century ad, Christian martyr; patron saint of travellers
  • chrysophyte — any of the golden alga species
  • cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
  • cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
  • clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
  • clothes-peg — a clothespin.
  • clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
  • clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
  • clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
  • 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.
  • coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
  • colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
  • compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
  • 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
  • competences — Plural form of competence.
  • competitors — a person, team, company, etc., that competes; rival.
  • complements — Plural form of complement.
  • completions — Plural form of completion.
  • completists — Plural form of completist.
  • complicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate.
  • compliments — a greeting of respect or regard
  • compositely — In a composite manner.
  • compositive — synthetic; involving composition
  • compostable — capable of being used as compost
  • computerese — the jargon and terminology associated with computers
  • computerise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerize.
  • computerist — a computer user
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