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

  • britney spears — beers
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
  • cancer patient — a person who is receiving medical treatment for a malignant growth or tumour
  • cap the climax — to be or do more than could be expected or believed
  • cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • capital letter — Capital letters are the same as capital s.
  • capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
  • captain cooker — a wild pig
  • captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
  • 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
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