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15-letter words containing p, e, r, l, o, c

  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
  • hexachlorophene — a white, crystalline powder, C 13 Cl 6 H 6 O 2 , insoluble in water: used as an antibacterial agent chiefly in toothpastes and soaps.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
  • introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • laptop computer — portable computer
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • little corporal — (Napoleon Bonaparte"the Little Corporal") 1769–1821, French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804–15.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lodgepole creek — a river in SE Wyoming, SW Nebraska, and NE Colorado, flowing E to the South Platte River. 212 miles (341 km) long.
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • master corporal — a noncommissioned officer in the Canadian forces senior to a corporal and junior to a sergeant
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