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16-letter words containing i, r, e, p, l, a

  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • electrical power — electricity
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
  • epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
  • expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
  • federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • 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.
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • 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.
  • grim file reaper — (storage, operating system)   (GFR) An ITS and LISP Machine utility to remove files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • half life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
  • hierophantically — In a hierophantic manner; in the manner of a hierophant.
  • high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
  • himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
  • horizontal plane — flat surface parallel to the horizon
  • hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
  • hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.
  • hyperchlorhydria — excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
  • hyperinsulinemia — (medicine) The condition of having an excessively high level of insulin in the blood, usually due to excess production.
  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
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