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15-letter words containing p, o, n

  • congress-people — congressmember.
  • connected graph — (mathematics)   A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
  • connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
  • conscriptionist — a person who is in favour of conscription
  • conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
  • conspicuousness — Openness or exposure to the view; a state of being clearly visible.
  • consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
  • contact printer — an apparatus used for making contact prints, having a frame for holding printing paper and negatives together and a light source for making an exposure.
  • contact process — a catalytic method for producing sulfuric acid from sulfur dioxide and oxygen.
  • contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
  • 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.
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
  • contrapropeller — one of two propellers, usually attached to a ship or aircraft, which rotates in the opposite direction to the other
  • 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.
  • cooling process — the process of becoming cooler
  • cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
  • copy protection — a routine that is included in a program by its publisher to prevent the software from being duplicated except for a single backup copy.
  • copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
  • core competency — a skill needed in order to be successful at a job or other activity: Several core competencies have been identified as critical to the success of every student.
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • corn-root aphid — an aphid, Anuraphis maidiradicis, that lives as a symbiont in colonies of cornfield ants and feeds on the roots of corn: an agricultural pest.
  • coronary bypass — the surgical bypass of a narrowed or blocked coronary artery by grafting a section of a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the patient's body
  • corporation tax — Corporation tax is a tax that companies have to pay on the profits they make.
  • corporatization — The privatization of a publicly-owned organization.
  • corporification — an act or the quality of embodying
  • correction tape — a tape that can be placed over a written or typed mistake, on which the correct form can be written or typed, thereby covering the mistake underneath
  • correspondences — communication by exchange of letters.
  • correspondently — in a correspondent manner
  • correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • counterpetition — a formal request for legal action submitted to a court by a respondent who has received a petition
  • counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
  • counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
  • counterpressure — an opposing pressure
  • counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
  • counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
  • counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
  • counterresponse — a response or reply which opposes or answers a previous response
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
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