15-letter words containing d, p, a, r, t
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- identity parade — law: police lineup
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
- interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- interpenetrated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpenetrate.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
- jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
- limited partner — special partner.
- lords spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- malappropriated — misused or mishandled
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- massed practice — learning with no intervals or short intervals between successive bouts of learning
- mastoid process — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- misappropriated — to put to a wrong use.
- modulo operator — (mathematics) (mod) The operator that returns the remainder after integer division of its first argument by its second. Written as "%" in C and some other languages. Where the second argument is a power of two, the result can be calculated much more quickly using bitwise and with the appropriate bit-mask.
- moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- non-repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- nondepartmental — not limited to or related to a specific department
- nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
- nonprecedential — Not precedential.
- odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner