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13-letter words containing p, a, n

  • cottage piano — a small upright piano
  • counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
  • counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
  • 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.
  • craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
  • craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
  • cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
  • crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
  • crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
  • creep-grazing — a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • 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
  • crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
  • cryptanalysis — the study of codes and ciphers; cryptography
  • cryptanalytic — Of or pertaining to cryptanalysis or cryptanalytics.
  • 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.
  • cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
  • 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 and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
  • cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
  • 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
  • dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
  • danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
  • data striping — (storage)   Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
  • death penalty — The death penalty is the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have committed very serious crimes.
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
  • decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
  • decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
  • deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
  • demand paging — (memory management)   A kind of virtual memory where a page of memory will be paged in if an attempt is made to access it and it is not already present in main memory. This normally involves a memory management unit which looks up the virtual address in a page map to see if it is paged in. If it is not then the operating system will page it in, update the page map and restart the failed access. This implies that the processor must be able to recover from and restart a failed memory access or must be suspended while some other mechanism is used to perform the paging. Paging in a page may first require some other page to be moved from main memory to disk ("paged out") to make room. If this page has not been modified since it was paged in, it can simply be reused without writing it back to disk. This is determined from the "modified" or "dirty" flag bit in the page map. A replacement algorithm or policy is used to select the page to be paged out, often this is the least recently used (LRU) algorithm.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • deng xiaoping — 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
  • dental plaque — a filmy deposit on the surface of a tooth consisting of a mixture of mucus, bacteria, food, etc
  • dependability — software reliability
  • depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
  • depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
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