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

  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
  • exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
  • exponential-time — (complexity)   The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • filter promotion — (algorithm)   In a generate and test algorithm, combining part of the filter with the generator in order to reduce the number of potential solutions generated. A trivial example: filter (< 100) [1..1000] ==> [1..99] where [1..n] generates the list of integers from 1 to n. Here the filter has been combined completely with the generator. This is an example of fusion.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • first four ships — the earliest settlers' ships to arrive in the Canterbury Province
  • fissure eruption — the emergence of lava from a fissure in the ground rather than from a volcanic cone or vent
  • flash photolysis — the study of photochemical reaction mechanisms in gases by analyzing spectroscopically the reaction products in a gas mixture irradiated with a powerful light flash.
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • footsteps editor — the technician who adds sound effects, such as doors closing, rain falling, etc, during the postproduction sound-dubbing process
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • front projection — a display system that projects an enlarged television picture on the front surface of a reflective screen.
  • frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • furniture polish — product: shines wood
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
  • 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.
  • gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
  • go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • 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.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • 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.
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • 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.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • hamiltonian path — Hamiltonian problem
  • hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hemicorporectomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure which cuts through the spine and removes the lower half of the body from the waist down.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
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