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14-letter words containing m, c, p

  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • semi-spherical — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • semielliptical — a half ellipse, usually one containing both ends of the major axis.
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • showplace home — a historic house
  • sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • simple machine — machine (def 3b).
  • simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
  • simplistically — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
  • simscript ii.5 — Another version of SIMSCRIPT from CACI.
  • sleepaway camp — a camp providing facilities for teenagers to sleep away from home
  • smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • social-compact — the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
  • solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
  • space medicine — the branch of aviation medicine dealing with the effects on humans of flying outside the earth's atmosphere.
  • space platform — space station.
  • spark spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric spark, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the spark passes.
  • sparring match — a practice boxing match
  • specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
  • spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
  • speculum metal — any of several bronze alloys with a high tin content, often containing other materials, as silver, brass, lead, zinc, or arsenic, used for making mirrors and reflectors.
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • spirit compass — a wet compass filled with a mixture of alcohol and water.
  • sports complex — exercise facility, leisure centre
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • stream capture — piracy (def 3).
  • striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • summer cypress — burning bush (def 2).
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
  • supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
  • supramolecular — having an organization more complex than that of a molecule.
  • sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
  • symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • temple terrace — a town in W Florida.
  • the-peacemaker — (Albert Edward"the Peacemaker") 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1901–10 (son of Queen Victoria).
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