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12-letter words containing pe

  • capercailzie — Alternative form of capercaillie.
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
  • car expenses — incidental money spent on the operation of a car during the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
  • carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • carpetbeater — A tool used in housecleaning that was in common use before the invention of the vacuum cleaner.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
  • cassiopeia a — a very strong radio and X-ray source in the constellation Cassiopeia, identified as the remnant of a supernova thought to have occurred in the late 17th century
  • catching pen — a pen adjacent to a shearer's stand containing the sheep ready for shearing
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
  • charles epee — Charles Michel, Abbé de l', 1712–89, French priest and teacher of the deaf: pioneer in the development of sign language.
  • chart topper — a singer, band or video that comes top in the charts
  • cheesehopper — the larva of the cheese-fly, capable of a leaping movement using two claw-like mandibles which it also uses for digging
  • chili pepper — chili (sense 1) chili (sense 3)
  • chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
  • chopper tool — a core tool of flint or stone, with a transverse cutting edge, characteristic of cultures in Asia and parts of the Middle East and Europe
  • chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
  • chronoscopes — Plural form of chronoscope.
  • churchpeople — people belonging to a church
  • churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
  • cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
  • citlaltepetl — a volcano in SE Mexico, in central Veracruz state: the highest peak in the country. Height: 5636 m (18 492 ft), though this is disputed between different sources
  • claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
  • clapper rail — a long-billed rail, Rallus longirostris, of coastal marshes of the Americas, having a harsh, cackling cry.
  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • claptrappery — the art of eliciting applause
  • clergyperson — a member of the clergy
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
  • clipper ship — clipper (def 4).
  • clipper-ship — a person or thing that clips or cuts.
  • close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
  • cloud-capped — having clouds around the top
  • clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
  • co-dependent — A co-dependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
  • co-operative — A co-operative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
  • co-opetition — cooperation between competitors in business, esp in the computer industry
  • coated paper — a paper whose surface has been treated to take halftone impressions or color printing
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