11-letter words containing y, p
- 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
- chao phraya — a river in N Thailand, rising in the N highlands and flowing south to the Gulf of Thailand. Length: (including the headstreams Nan and Ping) 1200 km (750 miles)
- 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
- chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.
- chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
- 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.
- chirography — handwriting; penmanship
- chlorophyll — Chlorophyll is any, or all, of a group of green pigments that are found in plants and other organisms, which enables them to use the energy from sunlight.
- chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
- chorography — the technique of mapping regions
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chrysograph — a manuscript, especially of the Middle Ages, written in gold or gold and silver ink.
- chrysophyte — any of the golden alga species
- chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- 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.
- coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
- colonoscopy — visual inspection of the interior of the colon with a flexible, lighted tube inserted through the rectum.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
- company man — an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship
- 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.
- compilatory — of or relating to a compilation or compiler
- complacency — Complacency is being complacent about a situation.
- compliantly — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- complicitly — in a way that amounts to complicity
- componentry — the components of a machine, vehicle, stereo system, etc.
- compositely — In a composite manner.
- compotatory — of, relating to, or fond of compotation
- 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.
- conspicuity — conspicuousness
- conspirancy — Misspelling of conspiracy.
- contraparty — the other person or institution entering into a financial contract or transaction: the default of a counterparty.
- cooper city — a town in SE Florida.
- coparcenary — a form of joint ownership of property, esp joint heirship