14-letter words containing p, c, o, s
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- local politics — political activity at local level, as opposed to national politics
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- malacophyllous — (of plants living in dry regions) having fleshy leaves in which water is stored
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
- metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
- metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
- metempsychosis — the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
- metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
- metoposcopical — relating to metoposcopy
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
- microparasites — Plural form of microparasite.
- microparasitic — Of or pertaining to microparasites.
- microphysicist — a physicist who specializes in microphysics
- microprocessor — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.
- microsporidian — Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, that are very small fungi.
- microsporocyte — one of the mother cells that produce four microspores by meiosis.
- misacceptation — misinterpretation
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.
- miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- misconceptions — Plural form of misconception.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myopsychopathy — myopathy associated with mental weakness or change.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.