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15-letter words containing p, o, c, s

  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • box the compass — to name the compass points in order
  • broca's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • brocken specter — an optical phenomenon sometimes occurring at high altitudes when the image of an observer placed between the sun and a cloud is projected on the cloud as a greatly magnified shadow.
  • bromoil process — a process for making an offset reproduction by first making a photographic print on paper with a silver bromide emulsion, wetting it, and then using it as a lithographic plate, the lighter parts of the emulsion tending to repel the oil base of the ink and the darker parts tending to hold it.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • cape gooseberry — a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries
  • capitalizations — Plural form of capitalization.
  • capitulationism — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • capitulationist — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
  • cardinal points — the four main points of the compass: north, south, east, and west
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • cast-iron plant — any of several plants belonging to the genus Aspidistra, of the lily family, native to eastern Asia, especially A. eliator, having large evergreen leaves often striped with white, and grown as a houseplant.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • castner process — a process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide, devised by Hamilton Young Castner (1858–98)
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • cephalothoraxes — Plural form of cephalothorax.
  • chairpersonship — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • chemoautotrophs — Plural form of chemoautotroph.
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chest protector — a protective pad worn over the chest by a catcher or umpire to shield the body from foul tips.
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • ciliary process — one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • colposcopically — by means of a colposcope or colposcopy
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
  • committeeperson — a member of a committee.
  • common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
  • company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
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