16-letter words containing s, p, a, c, e
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
- court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
- cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
- cream puff paste — paste made with eggs, water or milk, butter, and flour, used in making éclairs, profiteroles, and other kinds of puffs.
- crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- data compression — the act of compressing.
- dependent clause — a clause that cannot function syntactically as a complete sentence by itself but has a nominal, adjectival, or adverbial function within a larger sentence; subordinate clause (Ex.: She will visit us if she can.)
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- disappearing act — magic trick
- displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
- displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
- dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
- domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
- easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
- eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- escape mechanism — way of avoiding reality
- escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
- exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
- fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- francis joseph i — 1830–1916, emperor of Austria 1848–1916; king of Hungary 1867–1916.