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16-letter words containing g, a, t, e, p

  • disappearing act — magic trick
  • dispersing agent — a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
  • emulator program — (networking)   (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
  • encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
  • epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
  • epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
  • feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
  • gastroesophageal — Of or relating to the stomach and to the esophagus.
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general practice — family practice.
  • geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
  • geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
  • go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • grasp the nettle — If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.
  • great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
  • high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
  • historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
  • hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
  • inter-packet gap — (networking)   A time delay between successive data packets mandated by the network standard for protocol reasons. In Ethernet, the medium has to be "silent" (i.e., no data transfer) for a few microseconds before a node can consider the network idle and start to transmit. This is necessary for fairness reasons. The delay time, which approximately equals the signal propagation time on the cable, allows the "silence" to reach the far end so that all nodes consider the net idle.
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • interpenetrating — Present participle of interpenetrate.
  • james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
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