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11-letter words containing s, p, i, c

  • ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
  • chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • champerties — Plural form of champerty.
  • champignons — Plural form of champignon.
  • championess — a female champion
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
  • chesspieces — Plural form of chesspiece.
  • chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.
  • chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
  • chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
  • chinquapins — Plural form of chinquapin.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • chip slicer — a machine or tool for cutting chips
  • chiropodist — A chiropodist is a person whose job is to treat and care for people's feet.
  • chirrupings — Plural form of chirruping.
  • chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • christopher — Saint. 3rd century ad, Christian martyr; patron saint of travellers
  • ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
  • cider press — a press for crushing apples for cider.
  • cider-press — a type of press used to extract the juice from apples to make cider
  • cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
  • circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
  • citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
  • cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
  • clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
  • cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
  • clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
  • clp(sigma*) — (language)   A constraint logic programming language with regular sets.
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
  • coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
  • coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
  • coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
  • coleoptiles — Plural form of coleoptile.
  • collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
  • colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
  • comic strip — A comic strip is a series of drawings that tell a story, especially in a newspaper or magazine.
  • common lisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
  • comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
  • compassings — contrivances or schemes
  • compatriots — Plural form of compatriot.
  • compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
  • compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
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