17-letter words containing c, a, m, p
- dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
- despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
- diaphragmatically — By use of the diaphragm; in a diaphragmatic way.
- displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
- disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
- dna amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
- doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
- dynamically typed — dynamic typing
- echoencephalogram — a graphic record produced by an echoencephalograph.
- election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
- electromyographic — Using electromyography.
- emotional capital — When people refer to the emotional capital of a company, they mean all the psychological assets and resources of the company, such as how the employees feel about the company.
- emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
- empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
- employment agency — company: finds jobs
- encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
- encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
- epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
- epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
- ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
- exclamation point — exclamation mark
- fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
- first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
- foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
- frames per second — (unit) (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
- gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
- geographical mile — nautical mile.
- glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
- glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
- gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
- hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
- homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
- humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
- hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- iambic pentameter — a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs
- ice-cream parlour — a place where people go to eat ice cream
- immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
- imperialistically — In an imperialistic manner.
- impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
- incandescent lamp — a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it.
- incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
- insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
- isomorphism class — (mathematics) A collection of all the objects isomorphic to a given object. Talking about the isomorphism class (of a poset, say) ensures that we will only consider its properties as a poset, and will not consider other incidental properties it happens to have.
- japanese clematis — a Japanese woody vine, Clematis paniculata, of the buttercup family, having dense clusters of fragrant, white flowers and plumed fruit.
- jump trace buffer — (JTB) A feature of some pipelined processors (e.g. Amulet, Pentium?) which stores the source and destination addresses of the last few branch instuctions executed. When a branch instruction is fetched, its source is looked for in the JTB. If found, the next instuction fetch will be from the previous destination of that branch. If it turns out that the branch shouldn't have been taken this time, then the pipeline is flushed. This means that in a tight loop it is not necessary to flush the pipeline every time you jump back to the start.
- jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
- jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.