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15-letter words containing s, p, e, n, t

  • butler's pantry — a pantry in a large house where crockery, glassware, cutlery, etc is kept
  • cabinet scraper — a scraper used in preparing a wood surface for sanding.
  • calliper splint — a splint consisting of two metal rods with straps attached, for supporting or exerting tension on the leg
  • cape finisterre — a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland
  • capital expense — A capital expense is the cost of acquiring or making improvements to fixed assets.
  • car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
  • carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • cartesian plane — Usually, Cartesian coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates for locating a point on a plane (Cartesian plane) by its distance from each of two intersecting lines, or in space by its distance from each of three planes intersecting at a point.
  • cartesian space — ordinary two- or three-dimensional space.
  • cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castner process — a process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide, devised by Hamilton Young Castner (1858–98)
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • 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
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • circumspectness — the quality of being circumspect
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • committeeperson — a member of a committee.
  • comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
  • comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • competitiveness — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
  • complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • composite print — a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives (composite print)
  • computer screen — the working area on the monitor of a computer
  • computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
  • 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.
  • conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
  • contact process — a catalytic method for producing sulfuric acid from sulfur dioxide and oxygen.
  • contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
  • contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
  • cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
  • correspondently — in a correspondent manner
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
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