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18-letter words containing c, o, u, p, n, l

  • political question — a question regarded by the courts as being a matter to be determined by another department of government rather than of law and therefore one with which they will not deal, as the recognition of a foreign state.
  • population balance — A population balance is a model showing particle sizes during a grinding process, which is used when designing a process.
  • population control — a policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population, esp in poor or densely populated parts of the world, by programmes of contraception or sterilization
  • portal circulation — blood flow in a portal system.
  • pour cold water on — If someone pours cold water on a plan or idea, they criticize it so much that people lose their enthusiasm for it.
  • process scheduling — multitasking
  • production control — the planning and supervision of manufacturing activities to ensure that goods will be produced on time at the lowest possible cost.
  • protocol data unit — (PDU) A packet of data passed across a network. The term implies a specific layer of the OSI seven layer model and a specific protocol.
  • provincial council — (formerly) a council administering any of the New Zealand provinces
  • pseudointellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
  • public convenience — a rest room, especially at a large public place, as at a railroad station.
  • public corporation — a corporation, owned and operated by a government, established for the administration of certain public programs.
  • public examination — an examination, such as a GCSE exam, that is set by a central examining board
  • publishing company — a firm which publishes books
  • pull one's punches — to restrain the force of one's criticisms or actions
  • pulmonic airstream — a current of lung air set in motion by the respiratory muscles in the production of speech.
  • put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
  • resurrection plant — a desert plant, Selaginella lepidophylla, occurring from Texas to South America, having stems that curl inward when dry.
  • self-preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • spackling compound — spackle
  • subject complement — a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in The travelers became sleepy.
  • unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
  • unit-linked policy — a life-assurance policy, the investment benefits of which are directly in proportion to the number of units in a unit trust purchased on the policyholder's behalf
  • universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
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