14-letter words containing a, u, t, p, o
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- 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.
- compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
- 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
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualise.
- conceptualists — Plural form of conceptualist.
- conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- conceptualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualize.
- conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- contemperature — the action of mixing together harmoniously or proportionately
- contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
- contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
- eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.