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16-letter words containing p, a, n, s

  • 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)
  • janet ip service — (networking)   (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • japanese anemone — an eastern Asian plant, Anemone hupehensis, of the buttercup family, having purplish or reddish flowers and grown widely in gardens.
  • 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
  • japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • japanese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
  • japanese lantern — Chinese lantern.
  • japanese spaniel — former name of Japanese Chin.
  • 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
  • keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • keep under wraps — not reveal
  • key note speaker — a person who delivers a keynote address.
  • kiss and make up — be reconciled
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • lay oneself open — to make oneself vulnerable (to criticism, attack, etc)
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
  • learner's permit — A learner's permit is a license that allows you to drive a vehicle before you have passed your driving test.
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • left parenthesis — (character)   "(". ASCII character 40. Common names: left paren; left parenthesis; left; open; paren (")" = thesis); open paren; open parenthesis; left parenthesis; left banana. Rare: so (")" = already); lparen; ITU-T: opening parenthesis; open round bracket, left round bracket, INTERCAL: wax (")" = wane); parenthisey (")" = unparenthisey); left ear. Paired with right parenthesis (")").
  • 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
  • lever escapement — an escapement in which a pivoted lever, made to oscillate by the escape wheel, engages a balance staff and causes it to oscillate.
  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • live in the past — If you accuse someone of living in the past, you mean that they think too much about the past or believe that things are the same as they were in the past.
  • lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
  • lump sum payment — money: one-off payment
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
  • mach's principle — the proposition that there is no absolute space and that the inertia and acceleration of a body are determined by all of the matter of the universe.
  • macpherson strut — an automobile suspension-system component that consists of a strut combined with a spring and shock absorber and connects the wheel to the frame of the vehicle.
  • 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.
  • magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
  • magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
  • man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
  • mangrove snapper — gray snapper.
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • manipulativeness — Quality of being manipulative.
  • 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.
  • mechanoreceptors — Plural form of mechanoreceptor.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
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