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16-letter words containing a, p, r, i

  • anthroposophical — of or relating to anthroposophy
  • anti-aphrodisiac — Also, aphrodisiacal [af-ruh-duh-zahy-uh-kuh l, -sahy-] /ˌæf rə dəˈzaɪ ə kəl, -ˈsaɪ-/ (Show IPA). arousing sexual desire.
  • anti-imperialist — opposed to imperialism
  • anti-patriarchal — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
  • anti-progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • anti-prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
  • antihypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • antihypertensive — able to inhibit or control hypertension
  • antiparkinsonian — An antiparkinsonian is an agent used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  • antipornographic — Opposing pornography.
  • antoinette perry — Antoinette, 1888–1946, U.S. actress, theatrical manager, and producer.
  • apostolic church — the Christian church as founded by the apostles.
  • apparent horizon — the apparent line that divides the earth and the sky
  • appeals tribunal — a tribunal that hears appeals
  • apple of discord — a golden apple inscribed "For the fairest". It was claimed by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, to whom Paris awarded it, thus beginning a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
  • appliance garage — a kitchen compartment or cabinet designed for housing frequently used small electric appliances.
  • application form — a form to be filled in when applying for job, grant etc
  • applied research — research that is put to practical use
  • appraisal method — a method used for the appraisal of an employee
  • appreciativeness — The state or quality of being appreciative.
  • apprehensiveness — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • april fool's day — April Fool's Day is the 1st of April, the day on which people traditionally play tricks on each other.
  • april fools' day — April 1, a day when practical jokes or tricks are played on unsuspecting people.
  • armillary sphere — a model of the celestial sphere consisting of rings representing the relative positions of the celestial equator, ecliptic, etc, used by early astronomers for determining the positions of stars
  • aromatherapeutic — Of or pertaining to aromatherapy.
  • arrival platform — the platform where a train, or passenger arrives
  • arteriocapillary — Relating to the arteries and the capillaries.
  • arthroscopically — By means of arthroscopy.
  • ashurnasirpal ii — ("the Merciless") died 859? b.c, warrior king of Assyria 884?–859 b.c.
  • asparaginic acid — aspartic acid.
  • assistant priest — a person who assists a priest in their work or who is not yet fully qualified as a priest
  • assurnasirpal ii — Ashurnasirpal II.
  • atmospheric tide — a movement of atmospheric masses caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon and by daily solar heating.
  • attitude problem — a frame of mind perceived by others to be hostile or uncooperative
  • auditory aphasia — aphasia in which there is no comprehension of spoken words; word deafness.
  • australopithecus — an extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago.
  • autobiographical — An autobiographical piece of writing relates to events in the life of the person who has written it.
  • autoethnographic — Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
  • automatic repeat — a key on the keyboard of a typewriter, computer, etc, which, when depressed continuously, produces the character repeatedly until the key is released
  • autoradiographic — Of or pertaining to an autoradiograph, a radiographic image produced by the decay of a radioactive substance.
  • autostereoscopic — Of or pertaining to autostereoscopy.
  • auxiliary police — a part-time reserve attached to a regular police force
  • aversion therapy — a method of suppressing an undesirable habit, such as excessive smoking, by causing the subject to associate an unpleasant effect, such as an electric shock or nausea, with the habit
  • avian diphtheria — a virus disease of chickens and other birds characterized by warty excrescences on the comb and wattles, and often by diphtherialike changes in the mucous membranes of the head.
  • axminster carpet — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
  • azuero peninsula — a peninsula in SW Panama, bordered on the E by the Gulf of Panama.
  • back-propagation — (Or "backpropagation") A learning algorithm for modifying a feed-forward neural network which minimises a continuous "error function" or "objective function." Back-propagation is a "gradient descent" method of training in that it uses gradient information to modify the network weights to decrease the value of the error function on subsequent tests of the inputs. Other gradient-based methods from numerical analysis can be used to train networks more efficiently. Back-propagation makes use of a mathematical trick when the network is simulated on a digital computer, yielding in just two traversals of the network (once forward, and once back) both the difference between the desired and actual output, and the derivatives of this difference with respect to the connection weights.
  • bacterioplankton — (biology) The bacterial component of marine plankton.
  • banana republics — any of the small countries in the tropics, especially in the Western Hemisphere, whose economies are largely dependent on fruit exports, tourism, and foreign investors.
  • band-pass filter — a filter that transmits only those currents having a frequency lying within specified limits
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