13-letter words containing p, c, o, s
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
- copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- corespondents — Plural form of corespondent.
- cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
- corporateness — the state of being a corporate body
- corporativism — corporatism
- corporealness — The state or quality of being corporeal.
- corporisation — The forming into one body; embodiment.
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- corresponsive — corresponding
- corruptionist — a person who engages in or upholds corrupt practices, esp. in public life
- corsican pine — a pine tree, a variant of the black pine Pinus nigra var maritime, originally native to Corsica and neighbouring Mediterranean regions
- corticospinal — Of, or pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- cosmopolitics — world politics
- cosmopolitism — The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.
- cosponsorship — joint sponsorship
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- costume piece — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- cotransporter — (biochemistry) An integral membrane protein that actively transports molecules by using the concentration gradient of one molecule or ion concentration to force the other molecule or ion against its gradient.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- counterperson — a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
- counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- counterpoises — Plural form of counterpoise.
- counterpoison — A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
- counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
- counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
- countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
- county prison — the prison of a particular county
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross product — a vector perpendicular to two given vectors, u and v, and having magnitude equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two given vectors multiplied by the sine of the angle between the two given vectors, usually represented by u × v.
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- cross-purpose — a contrary aim or purpose