14-letter words containing a, p, r, o, c
- coach operator — a company that operates a business involving the transport of passengers in coaches
- coal-tar pitch — a residue left by the distillation of coal tar: a mixture of hydrocarbons and finely divided carbon used as a binder for fuel briquettes, road surfaces, and carbon electrodes
- cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- cocktail party — A cocktail party is a party, usually held in the early evening, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served. People often dress quite formally for them.
- coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
- colorado topaz — a tawny-coloured form of topaz found in Colorado
- 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.
- colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
- come a cropper — If you say that someone has come a cropper, you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure.
- 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
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- compromisation — The act of compromising.
- computer-aided — done or improved by computer
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- conscriptional — of or relating to conscription
- conspirational — of or relating to conspiration
- conspiratorial — If someone does something such as speak or smile in a conspiratorial way, they do it in a way that suggests they are sharing a secret with someone.
- conspiratorily — In a conspiratory manner.
- constraintlisp — (language) An object-oriented constraint language based on CSP. An extension of Common Lisp and CLOS.
- 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
- 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
- contraposition — the act of placing opposite or against, esp in contrast or antithesis
- contrapositive — placed opposite or against
- contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
- contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
- cooperationist — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- copper cyanide — a creamy-white, highly poisonous, water-insoluble powder, CuCN, used chiefly in electroplating and in organic synthesis.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.