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16-letter words containing o, p, u

  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • cupric hydroxide — a blue, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Cu(OH) 2 , used in the manufacture of rayon, as a source for copper salts, and as a mordant.
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
  • cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
  • dandruff shampoo — a preparation of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and which helps to control and reduce dandruff
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
  • depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
  • diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
  • discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
  • disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
  • do oneself proud — to do extremely well
  • double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • electron capture — the transformation of an atomic nucleus in which an electron from the atom is spontaneously absorbed into the nucleus. A proton is changed into a neutron, thereby reducing the atomic number by 1. A neutrino is emitted. The process may be detected by the consequent emission of the characteristic X-rays of the resultant element
  • emulator program — (networking)   (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • 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
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • follow-up letter — a letter sent as a follow-up to an initial letter or to a telephone call, meeting, etc
  • four-star petrol — petrol containing lead, formerly sold in the UK
  • francis of paulaSaint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • full court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
  • full-court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
  • 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
  • george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
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