14-letter words containing p, a, c, t
- backstage pass — a document or badge that entitles the bearer to go backstage at an event, esp a pop concert
- backstrap loom — a simple horizontal loom, used especially in Central and South America, on which one of two beams holding the warp yarn is attached to a strap that passes across the weaver's back.
- bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
- ballast pocket — a depression that is formed beneath the ballast layer by penetration of ballast particles into the subgrade and that tends to collect moisture.
- baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
- bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
- base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
- bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
- batrachophobia — fear of amphibians
- batrachophobic — relating to the fear of toads and frogs
- battery backup — A battery backup is a system in some power supplies that switches between a main power source and a battery.
- black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
- blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
- bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
- blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
- block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
- body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
- 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.
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- call into play — to begin to operate
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
- can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
- cancer patient — a person who is receiving medical treatment for a malignant growth or tumour
- cap the climax — to be or do more than could be expected or believed
- capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
- cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
- capital letter — Capital letters are the same as capital s.
- capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
- capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
- 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
- captain cooker — a wild pig
- captain crunch — 1. (person) ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.