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16-letter words containing o, p, i, n, a

  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • indianapolis 500 — a 500-mile oval-track race for rear-engine cars having particular specifications, held annually in Indianapolis, Ind.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
  • inmos transputer — transputer
  • insurance policy — contract that insures sth
  • inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
  • interappointment — Between appointments.
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • interpenetration — to penetrate thoroughly; permeate.
  • interpretational — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • ion implantation — a method of implanting impurities below the surface of a solid, usually a semiconductor, by bombarding the solid with a beam of ions of the impurity.
  • ippolitov-ivanov — Mikhail Mikhailovich [mi-kah-eel mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /mɪ kɑˈil mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1935, Russian composer.
  • 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)
  • japanese bobtail — any of a breed of domestic cat, originating in Japan, with a very short, fluffy tail, and a soft, silky coat often in three colors, white, black, and red
  • john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
  • juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
  • laplace equation — the second-order partial differential equation indicating that the Laplace operator operating on a given function results in zero. Compare harmonic (def 4c).
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
  • loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
  • lower palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
  • lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
  • machine operator — someone who operates mechanical equipment
  • magmatic stoping — the process by which country rock is broken up and engulfed by the upward movement of magma
  • magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
  • majority opinion — an opinion in a case that is shared by more than half of the members of a court
  • make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
  • malapportionment — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • marriage portion — dowry.
  • marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
  • mechanoreception — The action of a mechanoreceptor.
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • megasporogenesis — the formation and development of megaspores.
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