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11-letter words containing pe

  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
  • cape helles — a cape in NW Turkey, at the S end of the Gallipoli Peninsula
  • cape pigeon — a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae
  • cape-glossa — Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
  • caper sauce — sauce flavoured with capers
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
  • capped pawn — a pawn that has been singled out or marked by a strong player as the one with which he or she intends to effect checkmate in giving a weaker opponent odds.
  • capped-rate — having a fixed upper limit
  • cappelletti — small squares of pasta containing a savoury mixture of meat, cheese, or vegetables
  • carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
  • card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
  • cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
  • 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.
  • castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
  • cenospecies — a species related to another by the ability to interbreed
  • centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
  • chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • 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.
  • chapel hill — a city in central North Carolina.
  • chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
  • charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
  • chilipepper — an edible, crimson rockfish, Sebastes goodei, of coastal waters off California.
  • chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
  • chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
  • chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
  • chromoscope — a piece of equipment that is used to examine different aspects of colour including, for example, intensity
  • chronoscope — an instrument that registers small intervals of time on a dial, cathode-ray tube, etc
  • cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
  • circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
  • cire perdue — a method of casting bronze, in which a mould is formed around a wax pattern, which is subsequently melted and drained away
  • clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
  • clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
  • clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
  • cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
  • cling peach — a clingstone peach.
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