13-letter words containing c, o, m, p, s
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatriotism — a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman.
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completer set — a set of supplementary pieces that completes a set of dishes, as creamer, sugar bowl, platter, gravy boat, and vegetable dish.
- completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
- complexedness — complexity
- complications — Plural form of complication.
- compos mentis — of sound mind; sane
- compositional — Compositional refers to the way composers and artists use their skills or techniques in their work.
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- consumptivity — consumptiveness
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- corporativism — corporatism
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- cosmopolitics — world politics
- cosmopolitism — The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- costume piece — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.