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14-letter words containing p, r, e, c, s

  • cerebral palsy — Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to a baby's brain before or during its birth, which makes its limbs and muscles permanently weak.
  • cerro de pasco — a town in central Peru, in the Andes: one of the highest towns in the world, 4400 m (14 436 ft) above sea level; mining centre. Pop: 70 000 (latest est)
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • cheese skipper — a dipterous fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae feed on cheese and move by jumping: family Piophilidae
  • chemoreceptors — Plural form of chemoreceptor.
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
  • chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
  • chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
  • chlorophyllase — an enzyme found in plants that decomposes chlorophyll by removing the phytol chain.
  • choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.
  • choreographies — Plural form of choreography.
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
  • chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
  • chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
  • chromosome map — a graphic representation of the positions of genes on chromosomes, obtained by observation of chromosome bands or by determining the degree of linkage between genes
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • computer virus — virus
  • congresspeople — congressmen or congresswomen
  • congressperson — A Congressperson is a member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
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