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14-letter words containing c, i, l, o, p

  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • social process — the means by which culture and social organization change or are preserved.
  • social-compact — the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
  • sociopolitical — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and political factors: the sociopolitical environment in Japan.
  • solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
  • special forces — crack military team
  • special school — A special school is a school for children who have some kind of serious physical or mental problem.
  • specialisation — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
  • specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
  • spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
  • spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • susceptible to — liable to
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • topicalization — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
  • tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
  • traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
  • tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
  • tropical storm — a tropical cyclone of less than hurricane force.
  • tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
  • uitzilopochtli — the Aztec god of war and of the sun.
  • ultrapatriotic — extremely patriotic
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
  • unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • unsuspiciously — not suspiciously; in an unsuspicious manner
  • upton sinclairHarry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • vibropac block — a precast concrete building block
  • voltaic couple — a pair of substances, as two different metals, that when placed in a proper solution produces an electromotive force by chemical action.
  • world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
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