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14-letter words containing p, r, e, l

  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • 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.
  • chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • 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
  • charge-a-plate — charge plate.
  • chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chlorophyllase — an enzyme found in plants that decomposes chlorophyll by removing the phytol chain.
  • chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
  • chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
  • clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
  • clock repairer — a person who mends clocks, watches, etc
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • 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.
  • colour palette — (graphics, hardware)   (colour look-up table, CLUT) A device which converts the logical colour numbers stored in each pixel of video memory into physical colours, normally represented as RGB triplets, that can be displayed on the monitor. The palette is simply a block of fast RAM which is addressed by the logical colour and whose output is split into the red, green and blue levels which drive the actual display (e.g. CRT). The number of entries (logical colours) in the palette is the total number of colours which can appear on screen simultaneously. The width of each entry determines the number of colours which the palette can be set to produce. A common example would be a palette of 256 colours (i.e. addressed by eight-bit pixel values) where each colour can be chosen from a total of 16.7 million colours (i.e. eight bits output for each of red, green and blue). Changes to the palette affect the whole screen at once and can be used to produce special effects which would be much slower to produce by updating pixels.
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • computer model — a model of a process or object created on a computer
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
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