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16-letter words containing e, p, h, o, d

  • hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • honeymoon period — a period of popularity enjoyed by a new government, or a new occupant of a post
  • hopfield network — (artificial intelligence)   (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
  • household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperchlorhydria — excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
  • maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
  • on the up and up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
  • on the up-and-up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
  • padded shoulders — (on a garment) shoulders lined, stuffed, or filled out with soft material, esp in order to give them a higher or wider shape
  • pantothenic acid — a hydroxy acid, C 9 H 1 7 O 5 N, found in plant and animal tissues, rice, bran, etc., that is part of the B complex of vitamins and is essential for cell growth.
  • 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.
  • patched-together — makeshift; roughly made from disparate elements
  • pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
  • phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
  • phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
  • photoperiodicity — the response, as affecting growth or reproduction, of an organism to the length of exposure to light in a 24-hour period.
  • phytoremediation — a process of decontaminating soil or water by using plants and trees to absorb or break down pollutants.
  • pithecanthropoid — of, relating to, or resembling the former genus Pithecanthropus or one of its members.
  • play a lone hand — to operate without assistance
  • point de hongrie — flame stitch.
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • 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.
  • processed cheese — a mass-produced product made of one or more types of cheeses that have been heated and mixed with emulsifiers, colorings, flavorings, etc., primarily to retard spoilage and enhance spreadability at reduced cost.
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • pseudohemophilia — a clotting disorder caused by abnormal factor VIII activity, and characterized by a prolonged bleeding time but without the delayed coagulation time of hemophilia.
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • put the skids to — to thwart or cause to fail
  • put to the sword — to kill with a sword or swords
  • radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
  • rochelle powders — (not in technical use) Seidlitz powders.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
  • so help me (god) — I swear
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spear-head spoon — diamond-point spoon.
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
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