16-letter words containing f, p, o
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
- semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
- serpentine front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a horizontal compound curve with a convex section between two concave ones.
- shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
- ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
- soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
- soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- speak for itself — be self-evident
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- street performer — busker or entertainer in a public place
- sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
- superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
- superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
- take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
- terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
- the best part of — most of
- the first couple — the US president and their spouse
- throw for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
- to play the fool — If you play the fool or act the fool, you behave in a playful, childish, and foolish way, usually in order to make other people laugh.
- to stop short of — If someone stops short of doing something, they come close to doing it but do not actually do it.
- top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- tropic of cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
- wipe off the map — to put out of existence
- wolfenden report — a study produced in 1957 by the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Britain, which recommended that homosexual relations between consenting adults be legalized
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty