13-letter words containing pe
- cheerer-upper — a person or thing that cheers a person up: A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.
- chemical peel — a cosmetic treatment used to eliminate wrinkles, blemishes, etc., in which an acid is applied to the face, neck, or hands, causing a layer of skin to peel off.
- cherry pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, having rounded, usually pungent fruit.
- chew-'n'-spew — any fast-food restaurant considered to be serving poor quality food
- chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chosen people — any of various peoples believing themselves to be chosen by God, esp the Jews
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- clippety-clop — the sound struck by the hoofs of a horse trotting on pavement, or any staccato, rhythmic sound resembling it.
- close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
- co-dependence — joint dependence between two or more beings
- co-dependency — a state of mutual dependence between two people, esp when one partner relies emotionally on supporting and caring for the other partner
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- competitively — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- contact paper — Photography. sensitized paper on which a contact print is made.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- cooperatively — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperativity — an interaction between structural units within a molecule or between molecules in an assemblage that enables the system to respond more sharply to an external change than would isolated units
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
- copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counterjumper — a clerk in a retail store.
- counterperson — a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
- countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
- countrypeople — countryfolk.
- countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
- crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
- crepe suzette — an orange-flavoured pancake flambéed in a liqueur or brandy
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- death penalty — The death penalty is the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have committed very serious crimes.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
- dependability — software reliability
- depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.