14-letter words containing p, e, n, c
- cephalic index — the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100
- cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
- change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chenille plant — an East Indian plant, Acalypha hispida, of the spurge family, having long, drooping, reddish-purple spikes of flowers.
- cherry-picking — to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
- chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
- chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
- chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
- chondrophorine — relating to chondrophores
- chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
- choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cine projector — a machine which projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures
- cinema complex — a building containing several cinemas
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
- clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
- close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- companion cell — any of a number of specialized parenchymal cells adjacent to a sieve tube in the phloem of flowering plants, believed to regulate the flow of nutrients through the tube.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compassionless — having no compassion
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.