16-letter words containing e, n, d, p, r, o
- neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
- non-incorporated — formed or constituted as a legal corporation.
- non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- non-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
- odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
- on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
- operating budget — money allocated to a project
- opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
- parallelepipedon — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
- partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pension provider — the company or organization that makes provision for a person's pension
- percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
- performance bond — contract bond.
- period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
- periodic tenancy — the letting of a dwelling for a repeated short term, as by the week, month, or quarter, with no end date
- personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
- phytoremediation — a process of decontaminating soil or water by using plants and trees to absorb or break down pollutants.
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- pithecanthropoid — of, relating to, or resembling the former genus Pithecanthropus or one of its members.
- play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
- point de hongrie — flame stitch.
- polar coordinate — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- polyhedral angle — a configuration consisting of the lateral faces of a polyhedron around one of its vertices. The portion of a pyramid including one of its points is such a configuration.
- ponderosa (pine) — a yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) of W North America, valued for its timber
- portmanteau word — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
- possession order — (in Britain) a court order that entitles a landlord legally to evict a tenant or squatter and regain possession of the property
- praetorian guard — the bodyguard of a military commander, especially the imperial guard stationed in Rome.
- predetermination — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predispositional — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- premier division — a football or soccer league division consisting of the top ten Scottish football teams
- prescription pad — a pad of prescriptions used by doctors, etc
- presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
- prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
- pride oneself on — to be proud of
- privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
- process industry — business of treating raw materials
- project guardian — (project, security) A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
- projected window — a casement window in which the inner end of the sash slides along a track on the sill as the sash swings outward.
- prolonged-action — sustained-release.
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
- protection order — a legal instruction by a court directing a person not to harm or harass a particular individual