15-letter words containing s, p
- crash programme — a short intensive programme to learn a skill, language, etc
- creeping fescue — red fescue.
- crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
- crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
- crispy critters — (jargon) (Or "Crispy Crittered". From the "Post" breakfast cereal of the same name) hardware which is fried or toast.
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
- cryoprotectants — Plural form of cryoprotectant.
- cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
- cryptozoologist — an expert in cryptozoology
- crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
- crystallography — the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
- cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cytophotometers — Plural form of cytophotometer.
- cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
- cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
- defunct process — zombie process
- delta hepatitis — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
- dephosphorylate — to remove a phosphate group from (an organic compound)
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- depressor nerve — any nerve that when stimulated produces a fall in blood pressure by dilating the arteries or lowering the heartbeat
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
- dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
- diaphototropism — growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light