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14-letter words containing c, r, o, s, p, t

  • misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
  • morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
  • mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • multiprocessor — parallel processing
  • neurocomputers — Plural form of neurocomputer.
  • 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
  • nonspectacular — not spectacular
  • nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
  • 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.
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • opisthographic — written on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
  • optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • people's court — small-claims court.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
  • peritoneoscopy — an endoscopy examining the peritoneal cavity
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
  • petrophysicist — a person who studies, or is an expert in, petrophysics
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • phosphorescent — exhibiting phosphorescence.
  • phosphorolytic — of or relating to phosphorolysis
  • photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
  • piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
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