16-letter words containing d, e, p, f, l
- 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
- band-pass filter — a filter that transmits only those currents having a frequency lying within specified limits
- butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
- d-type flip-flop — (hardware) A digital logic device that stores the status of its "D" input whenever its clock input makes a certain transition (low to high or high to low). The output, "Q", shows the currently stored value. Compare J-K flip-flop.
- 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
- depart this life — to die
- do oneself proud — to do extremely well
- droves of people — large numbers of people
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- field dependence — a psychological trait associated with having an external locus of orientation (contrasted with field independence).
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- 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.
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- full speed ahead — train: at top speed
- gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- half life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- 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)
- lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
- land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
- perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
- persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
- pride oneself on — to be proud of
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- self-disciplined — Someone who is self-disciplined has the ability to control themselves and to make themselves work hard or behave in a particular way without needing anyone else to tell them what to do.
- self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
- self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
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