19-letter words containing n, p, d
- display advertising — display ads taken collectively.
- diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
- dobsonian telescope — a relatively inexpensive Newtonian telescope, suitable for visual but not photographic use, in which the tube assembly slips freely in the lower base.
- dose-response curve — a curve plotting the relationship between the dose of a drug administered and its pharmacological effect.
- double counterpoint — invertible counterpoint using two transposable voices.
- duplicating machine — a duplicator, especially one for making identical copies of documents, letters, etc.
- dynamic positioning — Dynamic positioning is the use of computers to control the position of a semi-submersible rig.
- electrode potential — the potential difference developed when an electrode of an element is placed in a solution containing ions of that element
- empty-nest syndrome — a condition, often involving depression, loneliness, etc, experienced by parents living in a home from which the children have grown up and left
- executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
- expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
- extendible compiler — (language) (ETC) A Fortran-like compiler that can be extended with macros.
- feynman, richard p. — Richard P. Feynman
- free alongside ship — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
- front-end processor — a small computer or other dedicated device that performs preliminary processing of data for a host computer.
- gedanken experiment — thought experiment.
- germander speedwell — a speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys, having blue flowers.
- get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
- gigabits per second — (unit) (Gbps) A unit of information transfer rate equal to one billion bits per second. Note that, while a gigabit is defined as a power of two (2^30 bits), a gigabit per second is defined as a power of ten (10^9 bits per second, which is slightly less) than 2^30).
- go off the deep end — final or ultimate: the end result.
- grade point average — a measure of scholastic attainment computed by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number of credits or hours of course work taken.
- grievance procedure — the established series of steps to be taken in dealing with a grievance raised with an employer by an employee
- grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- ground-plane aerial — a quarter-wave vertical dipole aerial in which the electrical image forming the other quarter-wave section is formed by reflection in a system of radially disposed metal rods or in a conductive sheet
- have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- hold up one's hands — to confess a mistake or misdeed
- hop, skip, and jump — a short distance
- hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
- housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
- huffing and puffing — empty threats or objections; bluster
- hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- hypomixolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D, with the final on G.
- idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
- imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
- in definite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
- in the second place — secondly
- incidental expenses — costs outside those budgeted
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- indian paint fungus — a common woody hoof-shaped fungus, Echinodontium tinctorium, found on conifers in western North America and believed to have been used as a dye by Pacific Northwest Indians.
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- input/output device — a device that passes data into and out of a computer
- instantaneous speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the rate of change of position with respect to time at a particular point. It is measured in metres per second, miles per hour, etc
- intercardinal point — any of the four points of the compass midway between the cardinal points; northeast, southeast, southwest, or northwest.
- interdepartmentally — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- iterative deepening — (algorithm) A graph search algorithm that will find the shortest path with some given property, even when the graph contains cycles. When searching for a path through a graph, starting at a given initial node, where the path (or its end node) has some desired property, a depth-first search may never find a solution if it enters a cycle in the graph. Rather than avoiding cycles (i.e. never extend a path with a node it already contains), iterative deepening explores all paths up to length (or "depth") N, starting from N=0 and increasing N until a solution is found.
- judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.