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14-letter words containing o, n, e, p

  • cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
  • chondrophorine — relating to chondrophores
  • 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
  • cinema complex — a building containing several cinemas
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
  • clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
  • close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
  • companion cell — any of a number of specialized parenchymal cells adjacent to a sieve tube in the phloem of flowering plants, believed to regulate the flow of nutrients through the tube.
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compassionless — having no compassion
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
  • complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
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