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16-letter words containing d, e, p, i

  • captive audience — a group of people who are unable by circumstances to avoid speeches, advertisements, etc
  • captive breeding — Captive breeding is the breeding of wild animals in places such as zoos, especially animals which have become rare in the wild.
  • carboxypeptidase — any of several digestive enzymes that catalyze the removal of an amino acid from the end of a peptide chain having a free carbonyl group.
  • cartridge player — an audio or video system that reads cartridges of magnetic tape
  • cascade particle — the least massive member of the xi particle family.
  • cepheid variable — any of a class of variable stars with regular cycles of variations in luminosity (most ranging from three to fifty days). There is a relationship between the periods of variation and the absolute magnitudes, which is used for measuring the distance of such stars
  • charged particle — an atomic particle with a positive or negative charge, as an electron, proton, or helium ion
  • charmed particle — See at charmed (def 2).
  • checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
  • children's panel — (in Scotland) a group of representatives of relevant agencies, with the power to deal with a child under sixteen who is in criminal or family trouble. Its hearings are private and replace most of the functions of juvenile courts
  • chipped potatoes — chips
  • chlordiazepoxide — a chemical compound used as a tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and in the treatment of delirium tremens. Formula: C16H14ClN3O
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • closed-captioned — (of a video recording) having subtitles which appear on screen only if the cassette is played through a special decoder
  • code of practice — A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should behave.
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • competitive edge — business: superiority
  • compressed video — video compression
  • computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • content provider — A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites.
  • copper hydroxide — a blue, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Cu(OH) 2 , used in the manufacture of rayon, as a source for copper salts, and as a mordant.
  • core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
  • corporate raider — A corporate raider is a person or organization that tries to take control of a company by buying a large number of its shares.
  • cupric hydroxide — a blue, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Cu(OH) 2 , used in the manufacture of rayon, as a source for copper salts, and as a mordant.
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • 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.
  • dangling pointer — (programming)   A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • data preparation — the process of converting data or information into a form that can be read by a computer, so that the data can then be entered into the computer
  • dc potentiometer — A DC potentiometer is a potentiometer in which the supply is a battery and the balance is under direct current conditions.
  • decapitalization — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • deep in the past — long ago
  • deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
  • defence in depth — the act or practice of positioning successive mutually supporting lines of defence in a given area
  • deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
  • 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
  • delphi technique — a forecasting or decision-making technique that makes use of written questionnaires to eliminate the influence of personal relationships and the domination of committees by strong personalities
  • dementia praecox — schizophrenia
  • democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
  • depart this life — to die
  • departmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of departmentalize.
  • departmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of departmentalize.
  • departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
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