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

mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
misspecification — An incorrect specification.
monterey cypress — a tree, Cupressus macrocarpa, of southern California, being pyramid-shaped in youth, but spreading in age: occurs naturally in only two groves on the coast of Monterey County, California, but is cultivated extensively.
montes apenninus — a mountain range in the first and second quadrants of the visible face of the moon, forming the SE border of Mare Imbrium: about 600 miles (970 km) long.
multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
neutrosophic set — (logic) A generalisation of the intuitionistic set, classical set, fuzzy set, paraconsistent set, dialetheist set, paradoxist set, tautological set based on Neutrosophy. An element x(T, I, F) belongs to the set in the following way: it is t true in the set, i indeterminate in the set, and f false, where t, i, and f are real numbers taken from the sets T, I, and F with no restriction on T, I, F, nor on their sum n=t+i+f. The neutrosophic set generalises: - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0100 and i=0, with both t,f<100); - the dialetheist set, which says that the intersection of some disjoint sets is not empty (for t=f=100 and i=0; some paradoxist sets can be denoted this way).
newspaper report — a report published in a newspaper
noise prevention — the prevention of annoying or harmful noise in an environment
non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
noncompassionate — Not compassionate.
north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
northamptonshire — a county in central England. 914 sq. mi. (2365 sq. km).
observation post — a forward position, often on high ground, from which enemy activity can be observed and, particularly, from which artillery or mortar fire can be directed.
obstreperousness — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
on the scrapheap — (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
on-the-spot fine — a fine that is charged immediately upon being caught and found guilty of a crime
one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
one-party system — a political system in which only one party is allowed
open box testing — white box testing
open parenthesis — left parenthesis
operating system — (operating system) (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
organophosphates — Plural form of organophosphate.
osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
over-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
pairs tournament — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
palmerston north — a city in New Zealand, in the S North Island on the Manawatu River. Pop: 78 100 (2004 est)
parser generator — A program which takes a formal description of a grammar (e.g. in BNF) and outputs source code for a parser which will recognise valid strings obeying that grammar and perform associated actions. Unix's yacc is a well known example.
parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
passage to india — a novel (1924) by E. M. Forster.
paterson's curse — a purple-flowered noxious plant, Echium plantagineum, a close relative of viper's bugloss, naturalized in Australia and NZ where its harmfulness to livestock has prompted attempts to limit its spread
peasants' revolt — the first great popular rebellion in English history (1381), caused by the imposition of an unpopular poll tax: it lasted less than a month and failed as a social revolution
pectoralis minor — the smaller of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
pension benefits — the benefits that are paid to a person in accordance with his pension scheme
pension mortgage — an arrangement whereby a person takes out a mortgage and pays the capital repayment instalments into a pension fund and the interest to the mortgagee. The loan is repaid out of the tax-free lump sum proceeds of the pension plan on the borrower's retirement
pentatonic scale — a scale having five tones to an octave, as one having intervals that correspond to the five black keys of a piano octave.
pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium

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