16-letter words containing a, p, o, i, n
- decapitalization — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- dementia praecox — schizophrenia
- depoliticization — The act or process of depoliticizing.
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
- developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
- developmentation — (proscribed, chiefly, US, and, humorous) Development.
- dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- diphthongisation — The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
- diphthongization — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- disincorporation — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
- displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
- displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
- disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
- disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
- domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
- double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- 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.
- eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- encephalomalacia — (medicine) A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- epiphenomenalism — (philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
- exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
- experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
- exponential-time — (complexity) The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.
- financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future