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16-letter words containing n, e, o, p, l, a

  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • solid propellant — a rocket propellant in solid form, usually containing a mixture or combination of fuel and oxidizer.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • spinone italiano — one of an Italian breed of large all-purpose hunting dogs having a short wiry coat, solid white or white with light brown or yellow patches in color.
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • 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.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
  • terminal adaptor — (networking, hardware)   (TA) Equipment used to adapt Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) channels to existing terminal equipment standards such as EIA-232 and V.35. A Terminal Adaptor is typically packaged like a modem, either as a stand-alone unit or as an interface card that plugs into a computer or other communications equipment (such as a router or PBX). A Terminal Adaptor does not interoperate with a modem; it replaces it.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • topical-sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • trial separation — an experimental period of living apart
  • triple-expansion — noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.
  • tropical cyclone — a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names. Compare extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def 1), willy-willy.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • unapologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  • unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • windowpane shell — capiz.
  • xenotransplanted — Transplanted by xenotransplantation.
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