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

  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
  • tax depreciation — Tax depreciation is depreciation in a company's internal financial records that is different from the amount that is used for the internal books.
  • 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.
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • three-point line — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
  • 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.
  • three-point turn — When the driver of a vehicle does a three-point turn, he or she turns the vehicle by driving forwards in a curve, then backwards in a curve, and then forwards in a curve.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
  • to rest in peace — If you express the wish that a dead person may rest in peace, you are showing respect and sympathy for him or her. 'Rest in peace' or 'RIP' is also sometimes written on gravestones.
  • 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.
  • torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
  • transpeptidation — the process of transferring an amino acid or group of amino acids from one compound to another.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • unapologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • uncinate process — a curved, bony process on certain ribs of birds that projects backward and overlaps the succeeding rib, serving to strengthen the thorax.
  • underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
  • up-to-the-minute — extending to the present moment, as information, facts, or style: an up-to-the-minute news report.
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • voice production — the use of the voice in order to create particular effects
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • wimp environment — WIMP
  • world exposition — world's fair.
  • 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
  • zenith telescope — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.
  • zero-zero option — (in international nuclear arms negotiations) an offer to remove all intermediate-range nuclear missiles, if the other side will do the same
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