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16-letter words containing e, m, p, n

  • display terminal — Visual Display Unit
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • encephalomalacia — (medicine) A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • epiphenomenalism — (philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
  • escape mechanism — way of avoiding reality
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • expectant mother — a pregnant woman
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • exponential-time — (complexity)   The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • filter promotion — (algorithm)   In a generate and test algorithm, combining part of the filter with the generator in order to reduce the number of potential solutions generated. A trivial example: filter (< 100) [1..1000] ==> [1..99] where [1..n] generates the list of integers from 1 to n. Here the filter has been combined completely with the generator. This is an example of fusion.
  • fixed-price menu — In a restaurant, the cost of a meal on a fixed-price menu stays the same and does not vary.
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • giuseppe mazzini — Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1805–72, Italian patriot and revolutionary.
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
  • hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • hispano-american — Spanish.
  • honeymoon couple — a newly-married couple who are on their honeymoon
  • honeymoon period — a period of popularity enjoyed by a new government, or a new occupant of a post
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • hyper-excitement — an excited state or condition.
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