11-letter words containing p, c, m, i
- cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- cgi program — Common Gateway Interface
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- chromophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clp(sigma*) — (language) A constraint logic programming language with regular sets.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic strip — A comic strip is a series of drawings that tell a story, especially in a newspaper or magazine.
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- common lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- compactible — able to be made compact
- compaginate — to join or unite
- companiable — sociable
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- competetive — Misspelling of competitive.
- competition — Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have.
- competitive — Competitive is used to describe situations or activities in which people or firms compete with each other.
- competitors — a person, team, company, etc., that competes; rival.
- competitory — competitive.
- compilating — Present participle of compilate.
- compilation — A compilation is a book, CD, or programme that contains many different items that have been gathered together, usually ones which have already appeared in other places.
- compilatory — of or relating to a compilation or compiler
- compilement — a compilation
- complainant — A complainant is a person who starts a court case in a court of law.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.