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15-letter words containing c, a, o, e, p

  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • say one's piece — If you say your piece, you say everything you want to say about a particular matter without being interrupted, although people may be wanting to express opposing views.
  • sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
  • scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
  • sexual politics — the differences in the amount of power that male and female people have in a society or group
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • space telescope — a satellite put in orbit around the earth and equipped with an extremely accurate reflecting telescope, cameras, etc.: it is designed to relay astronomical data to the earth
  • special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
  • special session — a session, as of a legislature or council, called to meet in addition to those held regularly.
  • spectator sport — any sport that can be watched by spectators, as football or basketball, usually for a fee.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
  • spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
  • top dead center — Top dead center is the position of an engine's piston when it is at the very top of its stroke.
  • top dead-centre — the position of the crank of a reciprocating engine or pump when the piston is at the top of its stroke
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