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15-letter words containing c, o, m, p, t, n

  • microenterprise — A business operating on a very small scale, especially one with a sole proprietor and fewer than six employees.
  • microprojection — the projection of an image, captured by a microscope, onto a screen
  • misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • municipal court — a court whose jurisdiction is confined to a city or municipality, with criminal jurisdiction usually corresponding to that of a police court and civil jurisdiction over small causes.
  • native compiler — (programming, tool)   A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
  • neural computer — a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.
  • non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • non-consumptive — tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
  • noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • noncomputerized — not computerized or controlled by computers
  • noncontemporary — not contemporary
  • nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
  • ones complement — A system used in some computers to represent negative numbers. To negate a number, each bit of the number is inverted (zeros are replaced with ones and vice versa). This has the consequence that there are two reperesentations for zero, either all zeros or all ones. ... 000...00011 = +3 000...00010 = +2 000...00001 = +1 000...00000 = +0 111...11111 = -0 111...11110 = -1 111...11101 = -2 111...11100 = -3 ... Naive logic for ones complement addition might easily conclude that -0 + 1 = +0. The twos complement avoids this by using all ones to represent -1.
  • open-cut mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
  • pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • postman's knock — a children's party game in which a kiss is exchanged for a pretend letter
  • potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
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