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13-letter words containing o, p, e, n, a, i

  • corsican pine — a pine tree, a variant of the black pine Pinus nigra var maritime, originally native to Corsica and neighbouring Mediterranean regions
  • cottage piano — a small upright piano
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
  • deng xiaoping — 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
  • depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
  • depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
  • dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
  • depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
  • deprotonation — (chemistry) The removal of a proton (hydrogen ion) from a molecule to form a conjugate base.
  • diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
  • diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
  • diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
  • dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
  • dispensations — Plural form of dispensation.
  • disreputation — disrepute.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
  • enantiotropic — relating to enantiotropy
  • encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
  • encyclopaedia — (chiefly, UK, Australia) alternative spelling of encyclopedia.
  • encyclopaedic — Alternative spelling of encyclopedic.
  • encyclopedian — including a wide circle of learning
  • encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endopeptidase — An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain.
  • enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
  • enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • epanadiplosis — a figure of speech involving the same word being used at the beginning and the end
  • epidotization — the process of changing into epidote
  • epiphenomenal — Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.Huettel, Function Magnetic Imaging, 2004.
  • episcopalians — Plural form of episcopalian.
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • equipartition — the equal division of the energy of a system in thermal equilibrium between different degrees of freedom. This principle was assumed to be exact in classical physics, but quantum theory shows that it is true only in certain special cases
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • equipotential — (of a surface or line ) composed of points all at the same potential.
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