11-letter words containing c, p, o
- collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
- colonoscopy — visual inspection of the interior of the colon with a flexible, lighted tube inserted through the rectum.
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- colposcopes — Plural form of colposcope.
- come up for — When someone or something comes up for consideration or action of some kind, the time arrives when they have to be considered or dealt with.
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic strip — A comic strip is a series of drawings that tell a story, especially in a newspaper or magazine.
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- common lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- commonloops — (language) Xerox's object-oriented Lisp which led to CLOS. See also Portable CommonLoops.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- compactable — Capable of being compacted.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- compactible — able to be made compact
- compactness — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compaginate — to join or unite
- companiable — sociable
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
- company man — an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- comparators — Plural form of comparator.
- comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
- compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
- compass saw — a hand saw with a narrow tapered blade for making a curved cut
- compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- compearance — the act of appearing in court
- compellable — (of a witness) able to be made to attend court or testify.
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- compensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compensate.
- compensator — a person or thing that compensates
- competences — Plural form of competence.
- competently — having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
- competetive — Misspelling of competitive.