13-letter words containing p, o, e, t
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- clippety-clop — the sound struck by the hoofs of a horse trotting on pavement, or any staccato, rhythmic sound resembling it.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- code position — (character) An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
- cogent prolog — (language) A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- come up short — disappoint
- committeeship — (formerly) the office of a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his or her property was entrusted by a court
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies
- companion set — a set of fire irons on a stand
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- comparatively — in a comparative manner
- compare notes — to exchange opinions
- compartimento — any of the 18 administrative districts into which Italy is divided.
- compartmental — divided into compartments: a compartmental office; a compartmental agency.
- compartmented — Divided into compartments.
- compassionate — If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- competitively — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- compiled html — (filename extension) A Microsoft file format for distributing a collection of HTML files, along with their associated images, sounds, etc., as a single compressed archive file. Microsoft use this format for Windows HTML Help files. Most chms include a project (.hhp) file listing the included files and basic settings, a contents (.hhc) file, an index (.hhk) file, html files, and, optionally, image files. Users view chms with hh.exe, the HTML Help viewer installed with Internet Explorer. Filename extension: .chm.
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
- complementing — something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal.
- complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
- completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completer set — a set of supplementary pieces that completes a set of dishes, as creamer, sugar bowl, platter, gravy boat, and vegetable dish.
- completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
- complexometry — a chemical technique using the formation of a colored complex to indicate the end of a titration.
- complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- complimenting — an expression of praise, commendation, or admiration: A sincere compliment boosts one's morale.
- componentized — Simple past tense and past participle of componentize.
- compos mentis — of sound mind; sane
- compound time — compound meter
- compound tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of several sinusoidal waveforms superimposed upon one main one
- comprehendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of comprehend.
- computer chip — a small integrated circuit of a kind used in computers
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computer file — file
- computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
- computer geek — (jargon) (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
- computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.