15-letter words containing p, r, e, l
- cassette player — A cassette player is a machine that is used for playing cassettes and sometimes also recording them.
- cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
- cephalochordate — any chordate animal of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a fishlike body and no vertebral column; lancelet
- cephalothoracic — the anterior part of the body in certain arachnids and crustaceans, consisting of the coalesced head and thorax.
- cephalothoraxes — Plural form of cephalothorax.
- cervical plexus — a network of nerves branching from the spinal nerves of the neck region and innervating the neck, chest, diaphragm, and part of the face.
- chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
- charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
- cheap assembler — (tool) (CHASM) A shareware assembler for MS-DOS.
- chemolithotroph — Chemoautotroph.
- chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
- chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
- chinese parsley — coriander leaves used as an herb; cilantro
- chiropterophily — Pollination by bats.
- chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
- chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
- ciliary process — one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.
- class president — the student president of a school or college class
- cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
- clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- 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
- complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
- complete theory — (logic) An abstract logical theory in which all true statements have formal proofs within the theory.
- 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.
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- compressed slip — (networking) (CSLIP) VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.
- compressibility — the ability to be compressed
- compromise rail — a rail for linking rails having different sections.
- comptrollership — controller (def 1).
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- congress-people — congressmember.
- contrapropeller — one of two propellers, usually attached to a ship or aircraft, which rotates in the opposite direction to the other
- cooling process — the process of becoming cooler
- copper sulphate — a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO4
- copper-coloured — of a reddish-brown colour
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
- 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.