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14-letter words containing n, o, p

  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • 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.
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
  • by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • call into play — to begin to operate
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
  • cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
  • capitalization — the act of capitalizing
  • capitation tax — a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per head
  • 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
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
  • 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
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
  • chaptalization — a method of increasing the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar to the must before or during fermentation.
  • 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 block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
  • 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
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