15-letter words containing a, p, r, o, c
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
- hypochlorhydria — (pathology) The presence of an insufficient amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
- hypochondriacal — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypochondriasis — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- laptop computer — portable computer
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- little corporal — (Napoleon Bonaparte"the Little Corporal") 1769–1821, French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804–15.
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- macroscopically — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- malayan camphor — borneol.
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- master corporal — a noncommissioned officer in the Canadian forces senior to a corporal and junior to a sergeant
- mastoid process — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- matrix compiler — Early matrix computations on UNIVAC. Sammet 1969, p.642.
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- mechanoreceptor — any of the sense organs that respond to vibration, stretching, pressure, or other mechanical stimuli.
- megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.