13-letter words containing n, o, s, p, e, a
- compassionate — If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- compressional — relating to compression
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conspiratress — a woman who conspires
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
- corporateness — the state of being a corporate body
- corporealness — The state or quality of being corporeal.
- corsican pine — a pine tree, a variant of the black pine Pinus nigra var maritime, originally native to Corsica and neighbouring Mediterranean regions
- cotransporter — (biochemistry) An integral membrane protein that actively transports molecules by using the concentration gradient of one molecule or ion concentration to force the other molecule or ion against its gradient.
- counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
- depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- east paterson — former name of Elmwood Park (def 2).
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- encompassment — The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.