14-letter words containing c, a, m, p
- hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
- hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypercalcaemia — a heightened level of calcium in the blood
- hypercalcaemic — of or relating to hypercalcaemia
- hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.
- hyperglycaemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
- hyperglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
- hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
- hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
- hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- ibm compatible — (computer) A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
- impact printer — (printer) The earlier, noisier kind of printer where part of the mechanism comes into contact with the paper. The term would only be only used in contrast to "non-impact printer". Examples include line printer, daisy wheel printer, golf ball printer, dot matrix printer, Braille printer.
- imparisyllabic — (of a noun) not composed of the same number of syllables in all of its inflected forms, as Latin corpus, corporis.
- impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
- imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
- impracticality — not practical or useful.
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- isomorphically — In an isomorphic manner.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
- kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
- ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
- lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
- lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
- landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
- lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
- liquid compass — wet compass.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- london company — a company, chartered in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America, that founded Jamestown, Va., in 1607.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- malacophyllous — (of plants living in dry regions) having fleshy leaves in which water is stored
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- map projection — a projecting or protruding part. Synonyms: overhang, protrusion, jut.