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15-letter words containing p

  • chiropterophily — Pollination by bats.
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
  • chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • christmas party — a party organized before Christmas, usually by a firm or organization
  • chromatographer — A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph.
  • chromatographic — (analytical chemistry) Of or pertaining to chromatography.
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • chromoxylograph — a coloured print created from printing with wooden blocks
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • cigarette paper — a piece of thin paper rolled around tobacco to form a cigarette
  • ciliary process — one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
  • circumspectness — the quality of being circumspect
  • clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
  • cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • colposcopically — by means of a colposcope or colposcopy
  • come out on top — If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
  • commit to paper — to write down; record
  • committeeperson — a member of a committee.
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • common property — property belonging to all members of a community.
  • common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
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