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15-letter words containing p, e, a, s, n, t

  • cape finisterre — a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland
  • capital expense — A capital expense is the cost of acquiring or making improvements to fixed assets.
  • car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
  • carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • cartesian plane — Usually, Cartesian coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates for locating a point on a plane (Cartesian plane) by its distance from each of two intersecting lines, or in space by its distance from each of three planes intersecting at a point.
  • cartesian space — ordinary two- or three-dimensional space.
  • cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castner process — a process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide, devised by Hamilton Young Castner (1858–98)
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
  • comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
  • conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
  • contact process — a catalytic method for producing sulfuric acid from sulfur dioxide and oxygen.
  • contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
  • contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
  • cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
  • counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
  • crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
  • cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • cryoprotectants — Plural form of cryoprotectant.
  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
  • dictation speed — a speed of speaking that enables someone to take down what is being said
  • die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
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