14-letter words containing c, i, s, p, e, r
- exercise price — Finance. the fixed price at which a person can exercise an option to buy or sell something, especially in a call or put option.
- 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.
- experienceless — without experience; inexperienced
- extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
- 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
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- heterostrophic — (of a shell) twisting or turning in a different direction
- hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- hyperaesthesic — relating to an extreme capacity for feeling
- hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- hyperconscious — acutely aware.
- hypercriticism — criticism that is carping or unduly harsh.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
- hyperparasitic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperparasitism.
- hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
- hypertrichosis — excessive growth of hair.
- hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- hysteroscopies — Plural form of hysteroscopy.
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
- incorporeities — Plural form of incorporeity.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
- interiorscaper — One who works in interiorscaping.
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspections — Plural form of introspection.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- j/psi particle — the lightest of the psi particles, the first particle to be discovered that contains a charmed quark.
- kiss principle — /kis' prin'si-pl/ Keep It Simple, Stupid. A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off creeping featurism and control complexity of development. Possibly related to the marketroid maxim on sales presentations, "Keep It Short and Simple". See also Occam's Razor.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.