14-letter words containing c, r, i, s, p, n
- inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
- interiorscaper — One who works in interiorscaping.
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspections — Plural form of introspection.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- king's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
- kiss principle — /kis' prin'si-pl/ Keep It Simple, Stupid. A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off creeping featurism and control complexity of development. Possibly related to the marketroid maxim on sales presentations, "Keep It Short and Simple". See also Occam's Razor.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.
- microsporidian — Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, that are very small fungi.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nonhygroscopic — Not hygroscopic.
- nonprosecution — (legal) Of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
- nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
- 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.
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- over-precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
- panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
- parish council — local administrative body
- particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
- paschen series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
- pectinesterase — an enzyme present in plants, and some bacteria and fungi, which hydrolyses pectin
- pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
- perceptiveness — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- percussion cap — a small metallic cap or cup containing fulminating powder, formerly exploded by percussion to fire the charge of small arms.
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective