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11-letter words containing n, o, p, l

  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
  • channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
  • chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
  • chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
  • chlorpicrin — chloropicrin
  • ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
  • clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
  • clean up on — to defeat; beat
  • cleptomania — kleptomania
  • clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
  • closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
  • clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
  • clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
  • cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
  • coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
  • coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
  • coleopteron — a member of a large order of insects having the front wings modified as hard wing-cases, and comprising the beetles and weevils
  • colonoscope — an instrument for examining the colon, consisting of a flexible lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for abnormalities and to remove them or take tissue samples
  • colonoscopy — visual inspection of the interior of the colon with a flexible, lighted tube inserted through the rectum.
  • colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
  • colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
  • common lisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • commonloops — (language)   Xerox's object-oriented Lisp which led to CLOS. See also Portable CommonLoops.
  • commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
  • companiable — sociable
  • company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
  • compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
  • competently — having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
  • compilating — Present participle of compilate.
  • compilation — A compilation is a book, CD, or programme that contains many different items that have been gathered together, usually ones which have already appeared in other places.
  • compilement — a compilation
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