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15-letter words containing m, o, n, p

  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • come out on top — If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
  • committeeperson — a member of a committee.
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • common property — property belonging to all members of a community.
  • common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • companion piece — a subsidiary object, esp a work of art or piece of writing, that accompanies another
  • company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
  • comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
  • comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
  • comparison-shop — to compare prices and quality of competing merchandise.
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
  • compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
  • competition car — a car that has been modified to compete in racing
  • competitiveness — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
  • complementarily — In a complementary manner.
  • complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
  • complementation — In linguistics, a complementation pattern of a verb, noun, or adjective is the patterns that typically follow it.
  • complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complex-machine — Older Use. an automobile or airplane. a typewriter.
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • composing stick — a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
  • composite print — a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives (composite print)
  • compositionally — in a compositional manner
  • compotationship — the state of being a compotator or drinking companion
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
  • compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
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