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14-letter words containing c, o, n, t, e, m

  • overcommitment — to commit more than is feasible, desirable, or necessary.
  • overcommitting — Present participle of overcommit.
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overexcitement — The condition of being excessively excited.
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
  • peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
  • permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • pimento cheese — a processed cheese made from Neufchâtel, cream cheese, Cheddar, or other cheese, flavored with chopped pimientos.
  • pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
  • pneumoconiotic — a person who suffers from pneumoconiosis
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • recommencement — an act or instance of commencing; beginning: the commencement of hostilities.
  • recommendation — an act of recommending.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
  • remote control — control of the operation or performance of an apparatus from a distance, as the control of a guided missile by radio signals.
  • restrictionism — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
  • rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
  • scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
  • scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
  • scratch monkey — (humour)   As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
  • sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
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