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

  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electing a pope — (electronics, humour)   (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
  • electra complex — the sexual attachment of a female child to her father
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
  • electrophoreses — Plural form of electrophoresis.
  • electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
  • electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
  • electroreceptor — A cell or organ responsible for electroreception.
  • 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.
  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • 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
  • ethnopsychology — The scientific study of psychological concepts as they exist across different ethnic groups.
  • 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.
  • flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
  • foolscap octavo — a book size, 41⁄4 by 63⁄4 inches
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • 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
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • 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
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • 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.
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