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

  • 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.
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • hepatopancreases — Plural form of hepatopancreas.
  • high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
  • historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
  • hit one's straps — to achieve one's full potential or become fully effective
  • hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
  • hyper-patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • hypocoristically — In a hypocoristic manner.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • inmos transputer — transputer
  • inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
  • intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
  • 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)
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • key note speaker — a person who delivers a keynote address.
  • kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • lesser spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, R. flammula, of the genus Ranunculus, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
  • levallois-perret — a suburb of Paris, in N France, on the Seine.
  • lost-wax process — a process of investment casting in which a refractory mold is built up around a pattern of wax and then baked so as to melt and drain off the wax.
  • macpherson strut — an automobile suspension-system component that consists of a strut combined with a spring and shock absorber and connects the wheel to the frame of the vehicle.
  • magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
  • marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
  • matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
  • mechanoreceptors — Plural form of mechanoreceptor.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
  • mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • misappropriating — Present participle of misappropriate.
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