13-letter words containing c, a, m, p, e, r
- pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
- pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
- preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- primary cache — (hardware, architecture) (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protest march — public demonstration
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- republicanism — republican government.
- sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- sparcsystem 4 — (computer) A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- swamp cypress — bald cypress.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- truman capote — Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
- upper chamber — upper house.
- upperclassman — a junior or senior in a secondary school or college.
- whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
- xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.