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14-letter words containing a, c, e, p, t

  • 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
  • carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
  • carpet sweeper — a pushable, long-handled implement for removing dirt, lint, etc., from rugs and carpets, consisting of a metal case enclosing one or more brushes that rotate.
  • carpet-sweeper — a household device with a revolving brush for sweeping carpets
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • 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.
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • cataleptically — in a trancelike or cataleptic manner
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • 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
  • cephalhematoma — Alt form cephalohematoma.
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • character part — a lesser role in a drama, but one where the actor is called upon to display particular distinctive traits of character
  • character type — a cluster of personality traits commonly occurring together in an individual
  • charge-a-plate — charge plate.
  • 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
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • 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
  • chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
  • choir practice — a choir's regular meeting for practice
  • chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
  • cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
  • coach operator — a company that operates a business involving the transport of passengers in coaches
  • colour palette — (graphics, hardware)   (colour look-up table, CLUT) A device which converts the logical colour numbers stored in each pixel of video memory into physical colours, normally represented as RGB triplets, that can be displayed on the monitor. The palette is simply a block of fast RAM which is addressed by the logical colour and whose output is split into the red, green and blue levels which drive the actual display (e.g. CRT). The number of entries (logical colours) in the palette is the total number of colours which can appear on screen simultaneously. The width of each entry determines the number of colours which the palette can be set to produce. A common example would be a palette of 256 colours (i.e. addressed by eight-bit pixel values) where each colour can be chosen from a total of 16.7 million colours (i.e. eight bits output for each of red, green and blue). Changes to the palette affect the whole screen at once and can be used to produce special effects which would be much slower to produce by updating pixels.
  • compact camera — a simple 35 mm snapshot camera not having interchangeable lenses or through-the-lens focusing but sometimes having automatic focusing, exposure, and winding
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
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