14-letter words containing i, n, o, p, r
- bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
- bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
- beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
- bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
- bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
- bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
- block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
- blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
- bone porcelain — bone china.
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
- brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
- burn-in period — 1. (testing) A factory soak test intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to infant mortality will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2. (jargon) When one is so intensely involved in a new project that one forgets basic needs such as food, drink and sleep. Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See hack mode, larval stage.
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
- capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- captain cooker — a wild pig
- cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrier pigeon — any homing pigeon, esp one used for carrying messages
- cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
- chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chloroplatinic — of or derived from chloroplatinic acid.
- chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
- chondrophorine — relating to chondrophores
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cine projector — a machine which projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
- cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper