16-letter words containing i, r, u, p
- circumscriptible — Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
- circumscriptions — Plural form of circumscription.
- circumsporozoite — (biology, of a protein) Located on the surface of a sporozoite (and involved in host cell recognition and invasion); abbreviated as CS.
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
- composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
- computer science — the study of computers and their application
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- counter-petition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- creeping juniper — a prostrate central North American shrub, Juniperus horizontalis, of the cypress family, of central North America, having bluish-green or gray-blue leaves and blue fruit, growing well in sandy, rocky soil.
- cultural-capital — Sociology. the skills, education, norms, and behaviors acquired by members of a social group that can give them economic and other advantages: The accumulation of cultural capital is one route to upward mobility.
- cupric hydroxide — a blue, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Cu(OH) 2 , used in the manufacture of rayon, as a source for copper salts, and as a mordant.
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
- disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
- diurnal parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
- double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
- drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- 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.
- edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
- 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.
- entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- 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
- 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.
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- first four ships — the earliest settlers' ships to arrive in the Canterbury Province
- fissure eruption — the emergence of lava from a fissure in the ground rather than from a volcanic cone or vent
- fixed-price menu — In a restaurant, the cost of a meal on a fixed-price menu stays the same and does not vary.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
- frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
- functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- 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
- grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit