15-letter words containing p, e, r, c, i, n
- copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
- copy protection — a routine that is included in a program by its publisher to prevent the software from being duplicated except for a single backup copy.
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- correction tape — a tape that can be placed over a written or typed mistake, on which the correct form can be written or typed, thereby covering the mistake underneath
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- counterpetition — a formal request for legal action submitted to a court by a respondent who has received a petition
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- cpu info center — (processor) An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
- creeping fescue — red fescue.
- creeping jennie — moneywort.
- creeping myrtle — any of several Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, such as V. minor (lesser periwinkle) and V. major (greater periwinkle), having trailing stems and blue flowers
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- 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
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- 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.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
- entrance permit — a permit issued by the government of a country allowing nationals of other countries to enter
- epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
- epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
- epicyclic train — a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space
- eric conspiracy — (person, humour) A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
- existence proof — non-constructive proof
- expressionistic — Expressionist.
- facile princeps — an obvious leader
- first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
- fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- frederic chopin — Frédéric François [fred-uh-rik fran-swah,, fred-rik;; French frey-dey-reek frahn-swa] /ˈfrɛd ə rɪk frænˈswɑ,, ˈfrɛd rɪk;; French freɪ deɪˈrik frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1810–49, Polish composer and pianist, in France after 1831.