15-letter words containing n, e, a, r, p, o
- breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
- brompheniramine — a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.
- camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
- campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
- cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
- car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
- cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
- castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
- castner process — a process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide, devised by Hamilton Young Castner (1858–98)
- chairpersonship — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
- charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
- chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- 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
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- 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.
- 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
- competition car — a car that has been modified to compete in racing
- 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
- 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.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- conception rate — the success rate of artificial insemination in agricultural animals, usually expressed as a percentage
- concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
- conference pear — a variety of pear that has sweet and juicy fruit
- connected graph — (mathematics) A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- contact printer — an apparatus used for making contact prints, having a frame for holding printing paper and negatives together and a light source for making an exposure.
- contact process — a catalytic method for producing sulfuric acid from sulfur dioxide and oxygen.
- contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- contrapropeller — one of two propellers, usually attached to a ship or aircraft, which rotates in the opposite direction to the other
- cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- correction tape — a tape that can be placed over a written or typed mistake, on which the correct form can be written or typed, thereby covering the mistake underneath
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign