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10-letter words containing p, o, c, a

  • workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
  • workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
  • xerox parc — /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.
  • xiphopagic — making up or constituting a xiphopagus
  • zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.
  • zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.
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