15-letter words containing c, o, l, e, p
- electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
- electroreceptor — A cell or organ responsible for electroreception.
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
- encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
- encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
- epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
- epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
- epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
- epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- ethnopsychology — The scientific study of psychological concepts as they exist across different ethnic groups.
- exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fatal exception — (programming, operating system) A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
- grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
- hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
- hexachlorophene — a white, crystalline powder, C 13 Cl 6 H 6 O 2 , insoluble in water: used as an antibacterial agent chiefly in toothpastes and soaps.
- homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.