13-letter words containing o, n, c, p
- cosponsorship — joint sponsorship
- 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.
- cottage piano — a small upright piano
- cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
- cottonpickin' — damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.
- couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- counterjumper — a clerk in a retail store.
- counterperson — a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- counterpoises — Plural form of counterpoise.
- counterpoison — A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
- counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
- counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
- countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- countrypeople — countryfolk.
- countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
- county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
- county prison — the prison of a particular county
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
- 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).
- crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- cryptoanalyst — Alternative form of cryptanalyst.
- cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cut-off point — the limit at which something is no longer applicable
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
- cyproconazole — (organic compound) The conazole fungicide \u03b1-(4-chlorophenyl)-\u03b1-(1-cyclopropylethyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-ethanol.
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.