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16-letter words containing c, a, m, p, n

  • magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
  • magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
  • magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
  • magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
  • make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • mechanoreception — The action of a mechanoreceptor.
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • mechanoreceptors — Plural form of mechanoreceptor.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • menstrual cramps — pain in the lower abdomen as well as possibly in the lower back and legs associated with menstruation
  • mercantile paper — commercial paper.
  • microangiopathic — Of, pertaining to or accompanied by microangiopathy.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • micromanipulator — A device, used for micromanipulation, consisting of microscopic needles and instruments viewed through a microscope.
  • microprogramming — microcode
  • micropropagation — the propagation of plants from tissue cultures, often from single cells.
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
  • mit lisp machine — Lisp Machine
  • monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
  • mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
  • native companion — brolga.
  • non-contemporary — 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.
  • non-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • noncompassionate — Not compassionate.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • once upon a time — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
  • onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
  • overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
  • overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
  • panoramic camera — a still camera having a movable lens that horizontally scans a view while exposing a long photographic plate or strip of film.
  • panoramic screen — a very wide screen, as of a television, etc
  • pascal's limacon — limaçon.
  • pattern matching — 1. A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. For example, the function length [] = 0 length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs uses pattern matching in its argument to distinguish a null list from a non-null one. There are well known algorithm for translating pattern matching into conditional expressions such as "if" or "case". E.g. the above function could be transformed to 2. Descriptive of a type of language or utility such as awk or Perl which is suited to searching for strings or patterns in input data, usually using some kind of regular expression.
  • peace campaigner — someone who campaigns for peace or an end to conflict
  • peano arithmetic — (mathematics)   Giuseppe Peano's system for representing natural numbers inductively using only two symbols, "0" (zero) and "S" (successor). This system could be expressed as a recursive data type with the following Haskell definition: data Peano = Zero | Succ Peano The number three, usually written "SSS0", would be Succ (Succ (Succ Zero)). Addition of Peano numbers can be expressed as a simple syntactic transformation: plus Zero n = n plus (Succ m) n = Succ (plus m n) (1995-03-28)
  • pectoralis minor — the smaller of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • perchloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
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