6-letter words containing c, p, s
- cripes — an expression of surprise
- cripps — Sir (Richard) Stafford. 1889–1952, British Labour statesman; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947–50)
- crispi — Francesco (franˈtʃesko). 1819–1901, Italian statesman; premier (1887–91; 1893–96)
- crispr — Biochemistry. a unique cluster of short, repeated DNA sequences found in bacterial genomes and capable of fighting viruses: CRISPR enables bacteria to integrate foreign DNA into their genome.
- crisps — very thin slices of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack
- crispy — Food that is crispy is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- croups — Plural form of croup.
- crumps — Plural form of crump.
- crypts — Plural form of crypt.
- cupels — Plural form of cupel.
- cupids — Plural form of cupid.
- cuppas — Plural form of cuppa.
- cuspal — relating to or having a cusp
- cusped — having a cusp or cusps; cusplike.
- cusper — A person considered to have been born on a cusp between significant generations.
- cuspid — a tooth having one point; canine tooth
- cuspis — a cusp
- cutups — Plural form of cutup.
- cypres — legal doctrine
- cypris — a member of a genus of small bivalve freshwater crustaceans
- cyprus — an island in the E Mediterranean: ceded to Britain by Turkey in 1878 and made a colony in 1925; became an independent republic in 1960 as a member of the Commonwealth; invaded by Turkey in 1974 following a Greek-supported military coup, leading to the partition of the island. In 1983 the Turkish-controlled northern sector declared itself to be an independent state as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus but failed to receive international recognition. Attempts by the UN to broker a reunification agreement have failed. Cyprus joined the EU in 2004. The UK maintains two enclaves as military bases (Akrotiri and Dhekelia Sovereign Base Areas), which are not included in Cyprus politically. Languages: Greek and Turkish. Religions: Greek Orthodox and Muslim. Currency: euro and Turkish lira. Capital: Nicosia. Pop (Greek): 838 897 (2011 est); (Turkish): 265 100 (2006 est). Area: 9251 sq km (3571 sq miles)
- epochs — Plural form of epoch.
- escape — An act of breaking free from confinement or control.
- escarp — The side of the ditch next to the parapet in a fortification; the scarp.
- espace — (obsolete) Space.
- opacus — (of a cloud) dense enough to obscure the sun or moon.
- optics — the eye.
- panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
- parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- pascal — a high-level programming language, a descendant of ALGOL, designed to facilitate structured programming.
- pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- pascua — ˈIsla de (ˈislɑðɛ ) ; ēsˈläthe) Easter Island
- pc-ism — /P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops. Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.
- pclips — Parallel CLIPS - U Lowell. Concurrent independent CLIPS expert systems. They use 'rassert' (remote assert) to enter facts into each other's database. "PCLIPS: A Distributed Expert System Environment", R. Miller, CLIPS Users Group Conf, Aug 1990. E-mail: <[email protected]>(?).
- pesach — Passover (def 1).
- phasic — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phocis — an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.
- phocus — An object-oriented Prolog-like language.
- physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pincus — Gregory Goodwin. 1903–67, US physiologist, whose work on steroid hormones led to the development of the first contraceptive pill
- pisces — zodiac sign: Fishes
- pisci- — fish
- places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- preces — prayers
- precis — a concise summary.
- psocid — any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- psoric — a cure for psora
- psych- — psycho-
- psyche — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.