14-letter words containing c, o, s, t, p
- miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- misconceptions — Plural form of misconception.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- myopsychopathy — myopathy associated with mental weakness or change.
- neurocomputers — Plural form of neurocomputer.
- non-optimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- nonconsumption — the refusal to consume certain foods
- nonconsumptive — not consumptive of a resource, product, or service
- nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nonprosecution — (legal) Of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
- nonspecificity — The state or condition of being nonspecific.
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nonsymptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
- oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
- oligopsonistic — Being or pertaining to oligopsony.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- oophorectomies — Plural form of oophorectomy.
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
- ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
- ophthalmoscopy — the use of or technique of using an ophthalmoscope.
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
- opisthographic — written on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
- opt-out clause — a clause that permits signatories to a contract to opt out of particular provisions, or to terminate the contract early
- optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
- optimistically — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overoptimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- paleoecologist — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- panic stations — a state of alarm; panicky reaction
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent process — (operating system) The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
- peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
- pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.