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16-letter words containing d, e, p, s, a, c

  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
  • hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • paediatric nurse — a nurse who specializes in the care of children
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • 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.
  • phase difference — the difference between two sinusoidally varying quantities that have the same frequency, measured either as an angle or a time
  • physical address — (memory management)   The address presented to a computer's main memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU. A memory management unit translates virtual addresses into physical addresses.
  • pico de sao tome — an island in the Gulf of Guinea, off the W coast of Gabon, just N of the equator: the larger component of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. 318 sq. mi. (824 sq. km).
  • picture postcard — postcard (def 1).
  • piece d'occasion — something prepared or used for a special occasion.
  • pierce's disease — a disease of grapes caused by a rickettsialike organism, characterized by dwarfing of vines, mottling of woody tissues, and plant death.
  • play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
  • pleased as punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • prescription pad — a pad of prescriptions used by doctors, etc
  • price leadership — the setting of the price of a product or service by a dominant firm at a level that competitors can match, in order to avoid a price war
  • pseudo-patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
  • pseudo-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • pseudo-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • pseudocopulation — pollination of plants, esp orchids, by male insects while attempting to mate with flowers that resemble the female insect
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • psychic distance — the degree of emotional detachment maintained toward a person, group of people, event, etc.
  • ramsden eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
  • record separator — (character)   (RS) ASCII character 30.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • special pleading — Law. pleading that alleges special or new matter in avoidance of the allegations made by the opposite side.
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • spreading center — a linear zone in the sea floor along which magma rises and from which adjacent crustal plates are moving apart.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
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