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16-letter words containing o, p, e, n, d, i

  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • dichlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing two chlorine atoms.
  • digital envelope — (cryptography)  
  • dip one's toe in — to begin doing or try something new or unfamiliar
  • dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
  • dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • 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.
  • encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
  • great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
  • group identifier — (operating system)   (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • honeymoon period — a period of popularity enjoyed by a new government, or a new occupant of a post
  • hopfield network — (artificial intelligence)   (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • immunosuppressed — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
  • incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • incorrespondence — Lack of correspondence; failure to correspond or match up; disagreement; disproportion.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
  • josquin des prés — Josquin [zhuhs-kan;; French zhaws-kan] /ˈʒʌs kæn;; French ʒɔsˈkɛ̃/ (Show IPA), c1445–1521, Flemish composer.
  • josquin des prez — 1440?-1521; Fr. composer
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