14-letter words containing c, a, p, e, f
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- preperformance — occurring before a performance
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- processor farm — (computer, parallel) A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
- space platform — space station.
- special effect — Usually, special effects. a video or audio illusion in film or other media, created with computer-generated images, prosthetic makeup, pyrotechnics, etc.
- special forces — crack military team
- superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superficialize — to treat things superficially
- synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
- traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
- unspecifically — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
- waste of space — If you describe someone or something as a waste of space, you are indicating that you have a very low opinion of them.