16-letter words containing a, p, n, g
- magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
- malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
- mangrove snapper — gray snapper.
- marriage partner — a person you are married to
- marriage portion — dowry.
- megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
- megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
- megasporogenesis — the formation and development of megaspores.
- metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
- microangiopathic — Of, pertaining to or accompanied by microangiopathy.
- microprogramming — microcode
- micropropagation — the propagation of plants from tissue cultures, often from single cells.
- misappropriating — Present participle of misappropriate.
- mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
- mortgage payment — instalment paid on a housebuyer's loan
- multiprogramming — multitasking
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
- non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
- nonparticipating — (of a person or thing) not participating: No penalties were given to nonparticipating students.
- nonphysiological — of or relating to physiology.
- nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
- not to go nap on — to hold in disfavour
- on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- operating budget — money allocated to a project
- operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
- operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
- operating margin — An operating margin is a ratio used to measure how well a company controls its costs, that is calculated by dividing operating income by net sales, and expressing it as a percentage.
- operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
- operating system — (operating system) (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
- operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
- operationalizing — Present participle of operationalize.
- optical scanning — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- organ transplant — an operation in which an organ is transplanted from a donor
- organ-pipe coral — an alcyonarian coral of the genus Tubipora, occurring in tropical waters, and forming a complex colony of brick-red, vertical tubules joined at intervals by transverse plates.
- organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
- organophosphates — Plural form of organophosphate.
- organophosphorus — Denoting synthetic organic compounds containing phosphorus, especially pesticides and nerve gases of this kind.
- osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
- overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
- overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
- packet switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.
- packet-switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.
- packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
- papua new guinea — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
- parallel parking — parking along curb in line with other vehicles