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14-letter words containing c, o, s, e

  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
  • c preprocessor — (tool, programming)   (cpp) The standard Unix macro-expansion utility run as the first phase of the C compiler, cc. Cpp interprets lines beginning with "#" such as #define BUFFER_SIZE 256 as a textual assignment giving the symbol BUFFER_SIZE a value "256". Symbols defined with cpp are traditionally given upper case names to distinguish them from C identifiers. This symbol can be used later in the input, as in char input_buffer[BUFFER_SIZE]; This use of cpp to name constants, rather than writing these magic numbers inline, makes a program easier to read and maintain, especially if there is more than one occurrence of BUFFER_SIZE all of which must all have the same value. Cpp macros can have parameters: #define BIT(n) (1<<(n)) This can be used with any appropriate actual argument: msb = BIT(nbits-1); Note the parentheses around the "n" in the definition of BIT. Without these, operator precedence might mean that the expression substituted in place of n might not be interpreted correctly (though the example above would be OK). Cpp also supports conditional compilation with the use of #ifdef SYMBOL ... #else ... #endif and #if EXPR ... #else ... #endif constructs, where SYMBOL is a Cpp symbol which may or may not be defined and EXPR is an arithmetic expression involving only Cpp symbols, constants and C operators which Cpp can evaluate to a constant at compile time. The most widely used C preprocessor today is the GNU CPP, distributed as part of GCC.
  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
  • caloosahatchee — a river in S Florida, flowing W to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers. 75 miles (121 km) long.
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
  • capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
  • carbro process — a process for making carbon or pigment prints on bromide paper without exposure to light.
  • carcinogenesis — the development of cancerous cells from normal ones
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carnarvonshire — Caernarvon.
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carriage horse — a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.
  • carriage house — coach house.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
  • censoriousness — The state of being censorious.
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
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