16-letter words containing e, p, a, y
- interpretatively — In an interpretative manner.
- irreplaceability — The quality of being irreplaceable; inability to be replaced; (frequently) uniqueness.
- keep an eye open — to watch with special attention (for)
- key note speaker — a person who delivers a keynote address.
- lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
- laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
- lay oneself open — to make oneself vulnerable (to criticism, attack, etc)
- library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
- literacy project — a project, plan or scheme to increase literacy in a country, area, etc
- lord proprietary — (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony
- lump sum payment — money: one-off payment
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
- lymphatic system — an extensive network of capillary vessels that transports the interstitial fluid of the body as lymph to the venous blood circulation
- lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- make a photocopy — If you make a photocopy of a document, you make a copy of it using a photocopier.
- malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
- mental telepathy — telepathy.
- methyl parathion — a synthetic pesticide, C 8 H 1 0 NO 5 PS, used in the control of mites and various insects, as aphids, boll weevils, and cutworms.
- microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
- mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
- mortgage payment — instalment paid on a housebuyer's loan
- multiple myeloma — a malignant plasma cell tumor of the bone marrow that destroys bone tissue.
- multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
- neuroarthropathy — (medicine) Any disease of a joint that is associated with a disease of the nervous system.
- neurohypophyseal — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
- neurohypophysial — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
- neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
- nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
- non-contemporary — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- nucleophilically — In a nucleophilic manner.
- occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
- one-party system — a political system in which only one party is allowed
- onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- operating system — (operating system) (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
- operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
- organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
- orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
- overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
- paleoclimatology — the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
- papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
- paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- parallel sysplex — (operating system) A Sysplex that uses one or more coupling facilities.
- parity operation — the mathematical operation of reversing the directions of all three space coordinates. Symbol: P.
- particle physics — the branch of physics that deals with the properties and behavior of elementary particles.