16-letter words containing c, l, i, p, s
- common spoonbill — a wading bird of warm regions, Platalea leucorodia, having a long horizontally flattened bill: family Threskiornithidae, order Ciconiiformes
- compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
- complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
- complexity class — (algorithm) A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
- complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
- compliments slip — a slip of paper sent with a parcel that identifies the sender and expresses compliments
- composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- compositionality — The property of being compositional.
- conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
- contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
- crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- decision problem — (theory) A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
- displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
- dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
- double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- explosive device — a device, such as a bomb, that explodes or bursts loudly and with great force
- family physician — a general practitioner.
- file composition — A typesetting language.
- file compression — (algorithm) The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
- gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column