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24-letter words containing c, o, u, p

  • ichthyophthirius-disease — ich.
  • industrial correspondent — a journalist who specializes in reporting the industrial news
  • komi autonomous republic — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
  • lab for computer science — MIT. http://lcs.mit.edu/.
  • laugh in a person's face — to show open contempt or defiance towards a person
  • liquid components of gas — Liquid components of gas are associated hydrocarbons in natural gas, which include ethane, propane, and butane.
  • make a production out of — to make an unnecessary fuss about
  • mari autonomous republic — autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe. 8994 sq. mi. (23,294 sq. km). Capital: Ioshkar-Ola.
  • michael viii palaeologus — 1234–1282, Byzantine ruler 1259–82, first of the Palaeologus emperors.
  • morphologic construction — a construction that forms a compound or complex word. Compare syntactic construction (def 1).
  • multiple-valued function — function (def 4b).
  • mutual insurance company — an insurance company owned by the policyholders and not by shareholders
  • nalbuphine hydrochloride — an opiate drug used as a painkiller
  • neutrosophic probability — (logic)   An extended form of probability based on Neutrosophy, in which a statement is held to be t true, i indeterminate, and f false, where t, i, f are real values from the ranges T, I, F, with no restriction on T, I, F or the sum n=t+i+f.
  • open system architecture — (operating system)   (OSA) A competitor to IBM's SNA.
  • parallel cousin marriage — marriage between the children of two brothers or two sisters.
  • parochial church council — the ruling body of a parish, composed of the vicar, the churchwardens, and elected laypersons.
  • particulate fluidization — Particulate fluidization is a condition when particles in a fluidized bed are individually suspended.
  • passbook savings account — a type of savings account in which transactions are entered into a passbook in the possession of the account holder.
  • pluck sth out of the air — If you say that someone plucks a figure, name, or date out of the air, you mean that they say it without thinking much about it before they speak.
  • polish people's republic — former name of Poland.
  • portable document format — (file format)   (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. A PDF file can describe documents containing any combination of text, graphics, and images in a device-independent and resolution independent format. These documents can be one page or thousands of pages, very simple or extremely complex with a rich use of fonts, graphics, colour, and images.
  • portable scheme debugger — (PSD) A package for source code debugging of R4RS-compliant Scheme under GNU Emacs by Kellom ?ki Pertti <[email protected]>. Version 1.1. Distributed under GNU GPL. It works with scm, Elk and Scheme->C.
  • potassium cobaltinitrite — a yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, K 3 Co(NO 2) 6 , used as a pigment in oil and watercolor paints, and for coloring surfaces of glass, porcelain, etc.
  • presumption of innocence — the rebuttable presumption of the innocence of the defendant in a criminal action in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, placing upon the prosecution the burden of proof of the defendant's guilt.
  • privileged communication — a communication that one cannot legally be compelled to divulge, as that to a lawyer from a client
  • public access television — television in which local producers or individuals can participate
  • public international law — Also called public law. the law governing the legal relations between independent states or nations and, increasingly, between these and individuals.
  • public relations officer — a person who is responsible for communications with the public
  • public-access television — a noncommercial system of broadcasting on television channels made available to independent or community groups for programs of general interest to the community.
  • punch above one's weight — to do something that is considered to be beyond one's ability
  • pure functional language — purely functional language
  • pyrotraumatic dermatitis — hot spot.
  • reproductive imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
  • republic of south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
  • rose-coloured spectacles — If you look at a person or situation through rose-coloured glasses or rose-tinted glasses, you see only their good points and therefore your view of them is unrealistic. In British English, you can also say that someone is looking through rose-coloured spectacles.
  • scholastic aptitude test — a standard assessment test for entry into college in the United States
  • self-fulfilling prophecy — a prophecy that comes true because of the expectation that it will
  • sequentially compact set — a set in which every sequence has a subsequence that converges to a point of the set.
  • single european currency — the official currency, also known as the Euro, of some of the members of the European Union
  • skeleton in the cupboard — a scandalous fact or event in the past that is kept secret
  • special checking account — a checking account that requires no minimum balance but in which a small charge is made for each check issued or drawn and for monthly maintenance.
  • sulphur-crested cockatoo — a large Australian white parrot, Kakatoe galerita, with a yellow erectile crest
  • superheterodyne receiver — a radio receiver that combines two radio-frequency signals by heterodyne action, to produce a signal above the audible frequency limit. This signal is amplified and demodulated to give the desired audio-frequency signal
  • supportive psychotherapy — a type of psychotherapy that seeks to reduce psychological conflict and strengthen a patient's defenses through the use of various techniques, as reassurance, suggestion, counseling, and reeducation.
  • synchronous graphics ram — Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory
  • telephony user interface — (communications)   (TUI) Either a software interface to telephony (e.g. a phone-capable PC) or a DTMF-based interface to software (e.g. voicemail).
  • telescope user interface — (hardware, interface)   (TUI) A remote control interface for a telescope.
  • the occupied territories — the areas of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights occupied by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War
  • thompson sub-machine-gun — a .45 calibre sub-machine-gun
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