14-letter words containing a, c, e, p, t, n
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carpet muncher — lesbian
- case and paste — (programming) (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
- central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
- chenille plant — an East Indian plant, Acalypha hispida, of the spurge family, having long, drooping, reddish-purple spikes of flowers.
- chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualise.
- conceptualists — Plural form of conceptualist.
- conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- conceptualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualize.
- constantinople — Istanbul
- container port — a port that is adapted or built for the use of cargo containers
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- contemperation — the act of contempering
- contemperature — the action of mixing together harmoniously or proportionately
- contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
- contemplations — Plural form of contemplation.
- contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
- contemporanean — contemporary
- contemporaries — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
- contract price — a price for goods or services named in a contract
- contrapositive — placed opposite or against
- cooperationist — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
- corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice