11-letter words containing c, o, n, p
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
- chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
- chlorpicrin — chloropicrin
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
- chronograph — an accurate instrument for recording small intervals of time
- chronoscope — an instrument that registers small intervals of time on a dial, cathode-ray tube, etc
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
- codependent — A codependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
- coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
- coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
- coleopteron — a member of a large order of insects having the front wings modified as hard wing-cases, and comprising the beetles and weevils
- colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
- colonoscopy — visual inspection of the interior of the colon with a flexible, lighted tube inserted through the rectum.
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- common lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- commonloops — (language) Xerox's object-oriented Lisp which led to CLOS. See also Portable CommonLoops.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compaginate — to join or unite
- companiable — sociable
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.