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14-letter words containing p, i, c, o, u

  • corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
  • councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
  • counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.
  • counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
  • cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
  • cryptoporticus — a covered passage, as one underground, lighted on one side.
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
  • curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydrosulphuric — Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric.
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
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