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11-letter words containing c, i, p, l

  • clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
  • coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
  • code police — (humour)   (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
  • coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
  • coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
  • coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
  • collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
  • colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
  • colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
  • common lisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • compactible — able to be made compact
  • companiable — sociable
  • compilating — Present participle of compilate.
  • compilation — A compilation is a book, CD, or programme that contains many different items that have been gathered together, usually ones which have already appeared in other places.
  • compilatory — of or relating to a compilation or compiler
  • compilement — a compilation
  • complainant — A complainant is a person who starts a court case in a court of law.
  • complainers — Plural form of complainer.
  • complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
  • complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
  • complaisant — If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.
  • complecting — Present participle of complect.
  • complection — the natural color, texture, and appearance of the skin, especially of the face: a clear, smooth, rosy complexion.
  • completions — Plural form of completion.
  • completists — Plural form of completist.
  • complex ion — a charged complex. Compare complex (def 10).
  • complexions — Plural form of complexion.
  • compliances — Plural form of compliance.
  • compliantly — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
  • complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
  • complicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate.
  • complicitly — in a way that amounts to complicity
  • compliments — a greeting of respect or regard
  • complotting — a plot involving several participants; conspiracy.
  • compositely — In a composite manner.
  • compossible — possible in coexistence with something else
  • comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
  • compulsions — Plural form of compulsion.
  • compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels
  • compulsives — Plural form of compulsive.
  • condisciple — a fellow disciple or a fellow student
  • copaiba oil — a colorless, yellowish, or bluish liquid having a pepperlike odor and bitter taste, obtained from copaiba by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes and soaps.
  • coplanarity — being or operating in the same plane.
  • copolymeric — of or relating to a copolymer
  • coprincipal — a joint principal
  • coprolagnia — sexual arousal that is produced by the thought or sight of feces.
  • coprolaliac — of or relating to coprolalia
  • coprophilia — an abnormal interest in faeces and their evacuation
  • coprophilic — an obsessive interest in feces.
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