16-letter words containing p, m
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- compositionality — The property of being compositional.
- compressed video — video compression
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- compromise joint — a joint for linking together rails having different sections.
- compute parallel — (language) (Compel) The first single-assignment language.
- computer network — network
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- computer science — the study of computers and their application
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- concert promoter — an organizer of concerts and concert tours
- conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
- constant mapping — (networking) A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
- contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
- cream puff paste — paste made with eggs, water or milk, butter, and flour, used in making éclairs, profiteroles, and other kinds of puffs.
- crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
- critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
- cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
- cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
- dandruff shampoo — a preparation of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and which helps to control and reduce dandruff
- data compression — the act of compressing.
- dc potentiometer — A DC potentiometer is a potentiometer in which the supply is a battery and the balance is under direct current conditions.
- decision problem — (theory) A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
- dementia praecox — schizophrenia
- democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
- department store — A department store is a large shop which sells many different kinds of goods.
- departmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of departmentalize.
- departmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of departmentalize.
- depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
- development area — (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries
- development bank — A development bank is a bank that provides money for projects in poor countries or areas.
- development well — (in the oil industry) a well drilled for the production of oil or gas from a field already proven by appraisal drilling to be suitable for exploitation
- developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
- developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.