12-letter words containing o, p, t, m
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- competencies — Plural form of competency.
- competitions — Plural form of competition.
- compilations — Plural form of compilation.
- compile time — (programming) The period of time during which a program's source code is being translated into machine code, as opposed to run time when the program is being executed. As well as the work done by the compiler, this may include macro preprocessing as done by cpp for example. The final stage of program construction, performed by the linker, would generally also be classed as compile time but might be distinguished as link time. For example, static data in a C program is allocated at compile time whereas non-static data is allocated at run time, typically on the stack.
- compiliation — Misspelling of compilation.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- complainants — Plural form of complainant.
- complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
- complanation — the act of flattening or making level
- complections — Plural form of complection.
- complemental — complementary; completing.
- complemented — having a complement or complements.
- complementer — something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal.
- completement — (obsolete) Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
- completeness — complete
- complex salt — a salt that contains one or more complex ions
- complexation — the formation of a complex
- complexities — The complexities of something are the many complicated factors involved in it.
- complicating — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- complication — A complication is a problem or difficulty that makes a situation harder to deal with.
- complicative — having a tendency to complicate
- complicities — Plural form of complicity.
- complicitous — having complicity
- complimental — complimentary
- complimented — Simple past tense and past participle of compliment.
- complimenter — a person who compliments
- componential — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- componentize — (transitive) To split into separate components.
- comportation — (obsolete) The act of bringing together.
- comportments — Plural form of comportment.
- compositions — Plural form of composition.
- compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
- compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
- comptrollers — Plural form of comptroller.
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsatory — compulsory
- compulsivity — compulsiveness
- compunctions — Plural form of compunction.
- compunctious — causing or feeling compunction; regretful.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- computations — Plural form of computation.
- computer age — modern society regarded as the period when the widespread use of computers has fundamentally changed people's lives
- computer bus — bus
- computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
- computer sex — (jargon) Two computers interfaced with each other.
- computerised — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- computerized — A computerized system, process, or business is one in which the work is done by computer.
- computerizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of computerize.
- computerless — having no computer