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13-letter words containing pe

  • boom operator — a person who operates a boom
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
  • butcher paper — heavy, moisture-resistant paper, as used for wrapping meat.
  • butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
  • calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
  • camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cape hatteras — a promontory off the E coast of North Carolina, on Hatteras Island, which is situated between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic: known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" for its danger to shipping
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
  • cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • carpenter ant — any of a genus (Camponotus) of large ants that build nests in wooden buildings, tree trunks, etc. by gnawing out a complicated series of chambers
  • carpenter bee — any large solitary bee of the genus Xylocopa and related genera that lays its eggs in tunnels bored into wood or in plant stems: family Apidae
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carpet beetle — any of various beetles of the genus Anthrenus, the larvae of which feed on carpets, furnishing fabrics, etc: family Dermestidae
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
  • carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  • carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
  • carrot-topped — having red hair
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
  • cassette tape — a recording made on magnetic tape inside a plastic container, to be inserted into a tape deck
  • cassette-tape — Also called cassette tape. a compact case containing a length of magnetic tape that runs between two small reels: used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. See also audiocassette, videocassette.
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
  • chamber opera — an opera requiring few performers and a small orchestra.
  • chaparral pea — a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers
  • chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
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