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11-letter words containing t, r, a, p

  • cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
  • capped-rate — having a fixed upper limit
  • capri pants — women's tight-fitting trousers
  • caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
  • capstan bar — a lever, often wooden, for turning a capstan
  • cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
  • cargo pants — Cargo pants are large, loose pants with lots of pockets.
  • carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
  • carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • 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
  • carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
  • carpinteria — a town in SW California.
  • cartography — Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
  • cartophilic — relating to cartophily
  • caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
  • catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
  • catchphrase — A catchphrase is a sentence or phrase which becomes popular or well-known, often because it is frequently used by a famous person.
  • caterpillar — A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
  • caterpiller — Archaic spelling of caterpillar.
  • cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
  • centre pass — a push or hit made in any direction to start the game or to restart the game after a goal has been scored
  • centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
  • 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
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • 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.
  • charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
  • 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.
  • chip heater — a domestic water heater that burns chips of wood
  • chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
  • chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
  • chou pastry — cream puff paste.
  • chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
  • chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
  • chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
  • cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
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