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14-letter words containing c, o, u, p, s

  • scaphocephalus — a condition in which the length of the skull significantly exceeds its breadth
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • schizophyceous — belonging to the Schizophyceae, a group of unicellular bluish-green algae, occurring in both salt and fresh water and often causing pollution of drinking water.
  • sclerophyllous — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • sock suspender — garter (def 1).
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
  • speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
  • spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • staphylococcus — any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Staphylococcus, occurring in pairs, tetrads, and irregular clusters, certain species of which, as S. aureus, can be pathogenic for humans.
  • start-up costs — the costs of setting up a business or other project
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • superconductor — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • supercontinent — a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • superior court — the court of general jurisdiction found in many states of the United States.
  • superpatriotic — characteristic of a superpatriot
  • superscription — the act of superscribing.
  • superstruction — the action of superstructing
  • supramolecular — having an organization more complex than that of a molecule.
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • susceptible to — liable to
  • suspiciousness — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
  • theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • trouser pocket — a pocket in a pair of trousers
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
  • unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
  • unscrupulously — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
  • unsophisticate — not sophisticated
  • unsuspiciously — not suspiciously; in an unsuspicious manner
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