16-letter words containing d, e, p, s, t
- to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
- to pass judgment — If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
- to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
- to spend a penny — If someone says that they are going to spend a penny, they mean that they are going to go to the toilet.
- tongue depressor — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
- torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
- transpeptidation — the process of transferring an amino acid or group of amino acids from one compound to another.
- trap-door spider — any of several burrowing spiders, of the family Ctenizidae, that construct a tubular nest with a hinged lid.
- turn upside down — invert
- two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
- 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.
- type ii diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- underrepresented — to give inadequate representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately low.
- unissued capital — authorized capital that has not yet been issued as shares
- united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- well-represented — having good or sufficient representation
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
- whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
- whited sepulchre — hypocrite
- with due respect — with deserved esteem
- world exposition — world's fair.
- xenotransplanted — Transplanted by xenotransplantation.