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

  • prisoner of bill — (humour)   (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
  • professionalisms — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
  • pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
  • score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
  • self-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the same flower, another flower on the same plant, or the flower of a plant of the same clone.
  • self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • serpentine front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a horizontal compound curve with a convex section between two concave ones.
  • ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
  • 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.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • tropic of cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
  • writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
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