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15-letter words containing c, i, n, e, p

  • italian cypress — a tall Eurasian cypress, cupressus sempervirens, native to the eastern Mediterranean region
  • jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
  • japanese quince — a flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa, of Japan, having scarlet flowers and pear-shaped fruit.
  • jewish princess — JAP.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
  • lead-pipe cinch — an absolute certainty: It's a lead-pipe cinch they'll be there.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
  • life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • mechanical pulp — groundwood pulp.
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
  • menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
  • mental handicap — learning disability
  • merchant prince — a very wealthy or influential merchant.
  • mexican spanish — Spanish as used in Mexico. Abbreviation: MexSp.
  • microenterprise — A business operating on a very small scale, especially one with a sole proprietor and fewer than six employees.
  • microprocessing — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
  • microprojection — the projection of an image, captured by a microscope, onto a screen
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
  • multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
  • napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
  • native compiler — (programming, tool)   A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
  • nephrosclerosis — (pathology) arteriosclerosis of the renal arteries.
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