11-letter words containing pe
- cove stripe — a decorative stripe painted along the sheer strake of a vessel, esp of a sailing boat
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- crepe paper — Crepe paper is stretchy paper with an uneven surface. Coloured crepe paper is often used for making decorations.
- crepe shoes — shoes soled with crepe rubber
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
- cyclopentyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from cyclopentane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- cystoscopes — Plural form of cystoscope.
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- depauperate — poor; impoverished
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- dependables — Plural form of dependable.
- dependences — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
- dependently — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- dependingly — As having dependence.
- desperadoes — Plural form of desperado.
- desperately — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- diaper rash — (in babies) any irritation to the skin around the genitals, anus, or buttocks, usually caused by contact with urine or excrement
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- digital pen — a pen-like device that enables a person to enter information into a digital electronic device by writing on a screen
- dipeptidase — any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of dipeptides.
- disappeared — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- dispellable — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispensable — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- dispensably — in a dispensable manner
- dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
- dispensible — dispensable.
- dispeopling — Present participle of dispeople.
- dispersants — Plural form of dispersant.
- dispersedly — In a dispersed manner; in a scattered way, here and there.
- dispersible — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispersions — Plural form of dispersion.
- disproperty — to deprive of property
- disrespects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrespect.
- distempered — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- diterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C20 skeleton.
- dizzy spell — attack of vertigo
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- donor sperm — sperm which has been voluntarily given for use in the insemination of another person