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14-letter words containing c, a, p

  • encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
  • epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
  • epexegetically — In an epexegetic manner.
  • epicontinental — Denoting those areas of sea or ocean overlying the continental shelf.
  • epigenetically — By means of, or in terms of, epigenesis or epigenetics.
  • epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equity capital — Finance
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • erotic capital — the influence and earning power a person has as a result of his or her sexual attractiveness
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
  • eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
  • expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
  • extracorporeal — Situated or occurring outside the body.
  • extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
  • eye specialist — ophthalmologist
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • family compact — any influential clique
  • fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
  • fine champagne — a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.
  • fish and chips — fried fish fillets and French fries.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
  • frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
  • free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
  • french pancake — a thin, light pancake, usually served with a sweet or savory filling.
  • french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
  • friar preacher — a Dominican friar.
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