15-letter words containing p, o, m, n, a
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- 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
- common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
- commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
- communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- companion piece — a subsidiary object, esp a work of art or piece of writing, that accompanies another
- company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
- company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
- company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
- comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
- comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
- comparison-shop — to compare prices and quality of competing merchandise.
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
- competition car — a car that has been modified to compete in racing
- compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
- complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
- complementarily — In a complementary manner.
- complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
- complementation — In linguistics, a complementation pattern of a verb, noun, or adjective is the patterns that typically follow it.
- completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
- complex-machine — Older Use. an automobile or airplane. a typewriter.
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- compositionally — in a compositional manner
- compotationship — the state of being a compotator or drinking companion
- compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- computationally — from a computational point of view
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
- control program — (operating system) (CP) The component of IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) that provides "guest support" for operating systems that run on IBM mainframe compatible processors. Cp does this by providing a seamless emulation of privileged functions in the problem program environment.
- copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
- cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
- cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- developmentally — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
- doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon