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16-letter words containing a, d, p, t, o, r

  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • disincorporation — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • flat-bed plotter — a mechanized drafting device, usually computer driven, incorporating a moving pen whose horizontal and vertical range in two dimensions is limited only by the size of the bed of the device.
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
  • hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
  • have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • headed notepaper — notepaper headed with the name and address of a person or organization
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
  • lord proprietary — (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony
  • macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
  • media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • microlepidoptera — a collector's name for the smaller moths: a term without taxonomic significance
  • mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
  • miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
  • non-incorporated — formed or constituted as a legal corporation.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • patched-together — makeshift; roughly made from disparate elements
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • periodic tenancy — the letting of a dwelling for a repeated short term, as by the week, month, or quarter, with no end date
  • personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
  • phytoremediation — a process of decontaminating soil or water by using plants and trees to absorb or break down pollutants.
  • picture postcard — postcard (def 1).
  • pinot chardonnay — Chardonnay.
  • pithecanthropoid — of, relating to, or resembling the former genus Pithecanthropus or one of its members.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • polar coordinate — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
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