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16-letter words containing o, r, d, e, p

  • 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)
  • josquin des prés — Josquin [zhuhs-kan;; French zhaws-kan] /ˈʒʌs kæn;; French ʒɔsˈkɛ̃/ (Show IPA), c1445–1521, Flemish composer.
  • josquin des prez — 1440?-1521; Fr. composer
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • ladies'-eardrops — lady's-earrings.
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • lord proprietary — (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony
  • macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
  • media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • microlepidoptera — a collector's name for the smaller moths: a term without taxonomic significance
  • mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
  • miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
  • neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
  • non-incorporated — formed or constituted as a legal corporation.
  • non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • non-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
  • odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
  • 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.
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • over-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • padded shoulders — (on a garment) shoulders lined, stuffed, or filled out with soft material, esp in order to give them a higher or wider shape
  • paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • parallelepipedon — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
  • partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • patched-together — makeshift; roughly made from disparate elements
  • pays de la loire — a region of W France, on the Bay of Biscay: generally low-lying, drained by the River Loire and its tributaries; agricultural
  • pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
  • pension provider — the company or organization that makes provision for a person's pension
  • percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
  • periodic decimal — repeating decimal.
  • periodic tenancy — the letting of a dwelling for a repeated short term, as by the week, month, or quarter, with no end date
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