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15-letter words containing c, o, p, i, l

  • electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
  • encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
  • epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
  • epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
  • escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
  • exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fasciolopsiasis — a parasitic disease caused by flukes of the genus Fasciolopsis and characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea: common in the Far East.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • glossographical — relating to glossography
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • holographically — In a holographic way.
  • homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • huitzilopochtli — the Aztec god of war and of the sun.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
  • hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypochlorhydria — (pathology) The presence of an insufficient amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
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