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15-letter words containing p, a, c

  • archiepiscopacy — a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.
  • archiepiscopate — the rank, office, or term of office of an archbishop
  • armour-piercing — capable of penetrating armour plate
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • array processor — (processor)   (Or "vector processor") A computer, or extension to its arithmetic unit, that is capable of performing simultaneous computations on elements of an array or table of data in some number of dimensions. The IBM AltiVec (the "Velocity Engine" used in the Apple G4 computers) is a vector processor. Common uses for array processors include analysis of fluid dynamics and rotation of 3d objects, as well as data retrieval, in which elements of a database are scanned simultaneously. Array processors are very rare now (1998).
  • arroz con pollo — a Latin American dish consisting of chicken and rice cooked usually with saffron
  • asclepiadaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including the milkweed and swallowwort, having pollen in the form of a waxy mass (pollinium): now usually regarded as a subfamily of the Apocynaceae
  • assign a policy — If you assign a policy, you transfer legal ownership of an insurance policy to another person.
  • astrophysically — from an astrophysical point of view
  • astrophysicists — Plural form of astrophysicist.
  • athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
  • atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • audience appeal — the quality of being attractive to an audience
  • automatic pilot — An automatic pilot or an autopilot is a device in an aircraft that automatically keeps it on a particular course.
  • automorphically — in an automorphic manner
  • autostereoscopy — The display of stereoscopic images without the use of special viewing equipment.
  • autotrophically — through an autotrophic process
  • away-going crop — a crop planted by a tenant that matures after the expiration of the tenancy and is rightfully the tenant's to harvest.
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • banana republic — Small, poor countries that are politically unstable are sometimes referred to as banana republics.
  • bank acceptance — a bill of exchange or draft drawn on and endorsed by a bank
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bargaining chip — In negotiations with other people, a bargaining chip is something that you are prepared to give up in order to obtain what you want.
  • bay of campeche — the SW part of the Gulf of Mexico
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • bibliographical — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black raspberry — a plant, Rubus occidentalis, of E North America, that has black berry-like fruits
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blenheim palace — a palace in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: built (1705–22) by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 1st Duke of Marlborough as a reward from the nation for his victory at Blenheim; gardens laid out by Henry Wise and Capability Brown; birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (1874)
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • box the compass — to name the compass points in order
  • brachial plexus — a network of nerves in the armpits and neck, innervating the shoulders, arms, and hands.
  • brachiocephalic — of, relating to, or supplying the arm and head
  • brake parachute — a parachute attached to the rear of a vehicle and opened to assist braking
  • branchial pouch — one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.
  • breathing space — A breathing space is a short period of time between two activities in which you can recover from the first activity and prepare for the second one.
  • broca's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • brussels carpet — a worsted carpet with a heavy pile formed by uncut loops of wool on a linen warp
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