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16-letter words containing s, p, c

  • contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • conversation pit — a usually sunken portion of a room or living area with chairs, sofas, etc., often grouped around a fireplace, where people can gather to talk.
  • coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
  • cops and robbers — a children's game in which a group of players imitate the behavior of police and of thieves, as in pursuing and capturing.
  • cops-and-robbers — A cops-and-robbers film, television programme, or book is one whose story involves the police trying to catch criminals.
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
  • cornet à pistons — a three-valved brass instrument of the trumpet family. Written range: about two and a half octaves upwards from E below middle C. It is a transposing instrument in B flat or A
  • cornet-a-pistons — cornet (def 1).
  • coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
  • corporal's guard — a squad commanded by a corporal
  • corporation stop — a cock controlling the flow of water or gas from mains to individual consumers.
  • cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
  • counter-response — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
  • 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.
  • creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
  • crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • cross protection — the protection against a viral infection given to a plant by its prior inoculation with a related but milder virus
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • current expenses — noncapital and usually recurrent expenditures necessary for the operation of a business
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
  • 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.
  • depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
  • 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
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • disappearing act — magic trick
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
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