11-letter words containing n, a, m, p
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
- campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
- campaniform — shaped like a bell
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- campo santo — a cemetery
- cappa magna — a ceremonial cloak having a long train and a silk or fur-lined hood, worn by cardinals, bishops, and certain other dignitaries.
- carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compaginate — to join or unite
- companiable — sociable
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
- company man — an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
- compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compearance — the act of appearing in court
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- compensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compensate.
- compensator — a person or thing that compensates
- compilating — Present participle of compilate.
- compilation — A compilation is a book, CD, or programme that contains many different items that have been gathered together, usually ones which have already appeared in other places.