13-letter words containing c, a, m, p
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- copy the mail — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
- cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
- corporativism — corporatism
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
- decimal place — the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of ten
- decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- diaphragmatic — of the diaphragm.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- encephalotomy — The dissection of the brain.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- encompassment — The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- entrance ramp — a short road connecting a motorway, etc, to another road
- epistemically — In a manner that pertains to knowledge.
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- fait accompli — an accomplished fact; a thing already done: The enemy's defeat was a fait accompli long before the formal surrender.
- ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- frank chapman — Frank Michler [mik-ler] /ˈmɪk lər/ (Show IPA), 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- gomez palacio — a city in Durango state, N central Mexico.
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
- hematopoietic — the formation of blood.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.