15-letter words containing a, p, o, s, i
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
- compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- compositionally — in a compositional manner
- compotationship — the state of being a compotator or drinking companion
- compromise rail — a rail for linking rails having different sections.
- compromissorial — Relating to compromise.
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
- conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
- concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
- corpora striata — corpus striatum
- corpus striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter situated in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
- cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
- cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
- cost of capital — The cost of capital is how much it costs to borrow money with interest or issue securities to raise money.
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
- dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
- despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
- diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
- diaphototropism — growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light
- diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
- dictation speed — a speed of speaking that enables someone to take down what is being said
- disappointingly — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.