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16-letter words containing i, m, p, o, t

  • commercial pilot — an airplane pilot licensed to transport passengers, goods, etc.
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
  • companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
  • compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
  • competitive edge — business: superiority
  • compilation film — film from an archive used in a film or documentary to give a feeling of the relevant period
  • complete lattice — A lattice is a partial ordering of a set under a relation where all finite subsets have a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound. A complete lattice also has these for infinite subsets. Every finite lattice is complete. Some authors drop the requirement for greatest lower bounds.
  • complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
  • complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
  • complexity class — (algorithm)   A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
  • complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
  • compliments slip — a slip of paper sent with a parcel that identifies the sender and expresses compliments
  • composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
  • composite motion — a motion in a deliberative body that combines elements of several related motions
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
  • compositionality — The property of being compositional.
  • compromise joint — a joint for linking together rails having different sections.
  • computer science — the study of computers and their application
  • computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
  • constant mapping — (networking)   A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
  • cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • dc potentiometer — A DC potentiometer is a potentiometer in which the supply is a battery and the balance is under direct current conditions.
  • dementia praecox — schizophrenia
  • democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
  • depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
  • developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
  • developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • developmentation — (proscribed, chiefly, US, and, humorous) Development.
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
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