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15-letter words containing c, e, m

  • oscars ceremony — a formal annual event in the United States in which small gold statuettes are awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in films
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • over-excitement — to excite too much.
  • overachievement — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overpessimistic — excessively pessimistic or negative in outlook
  • pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • pan-americanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
  • pancake make-up — make up in cake form applied to the face with a sponge in order to cover up imperfections and even out skin tone
  • parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
  • parchment paper — a waterproof and grease-resistant paper produced by treating ordinary paper with concentrated sulfuric acid.
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • parmesan cheese — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • patent medicine — a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • pellicle mirror — a fixed mirror in a single-lens reflex camera that reflects some of the light entering the lens to the ground-glass view screen while permitting most of the light to pass through to the film.
  • pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • perimeter fence — fence surrounding an area
  • periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • pessimistically — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
  • pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
  • phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • phytochemically — in a phytochemical manner
  • picture element — (graphics)   (pixel) The smallest resolvable rectangular area of an image, either on a screen or stored in memory. Each pixel in a monochrome image has its own brightness, from 0 for black to the maximum value (e.g. 255 for an eight-bit pixel) for white. In a colour image, each pixel has its own brightness and colour, usually represented as a triple of red, green and blue intensities (see RGB). Compare voxel.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • piece to camera — a TV report in which a reporter is filmed saying something
  • piero di cosimo — Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
  • pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
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