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16-letter words containing c, o, p, e, s

  • craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • cross protection — the protection against a viral infection given to a plant by its prior inoculation with a related but milder virus
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electroreceptors — Plural form of electroreceptor.
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • explosive device — a device, such as a bomb, that explodes or bursts loudly and with great force
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • francis joseph i — 1830–1916, emperor of Austria 1848–1916; king of Hungary 1867–1916.
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