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13-letter words containing a, p, e, r

  • breeches part — a male role played by an actress.
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • 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.
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
  • 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.
  • camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
  • camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
  • camphoraceous — similar to camphor
  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • 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.
  • cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
  • 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 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
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
  • 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.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
  • 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
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
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