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16-letter words containing p, a, y

  • brittany spaniel — a short-tailed French bird dog that typically has a smooth orange- or liver-and-white coat
  • broomrape family — the plant family Orobanchaceae, characterized by scaly, leafless herbaceous plants that are parasitic on the roots of other plants and have irregular flowers and many-seeded capsular fruit, and including beechdrops, broomrape, and squawroot.
  • bunya-bunya pine — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
  • burkitt lymphoma — a rare type of tumour of the white blood cells, occurring mainly in Africa and associated with infection by Epstein-Barr virus
  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
  • bypass capacitor — a capacitor which provides a low-impedance path for alternating current while not passing any direct current
  • bypass operation — an operation involving redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery
  • byzantine empire — the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, esp after the deposition of the last emperor in Rome (476 ad). It was finally extinguished by the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453
  • california poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Eschscholtzia californica, of the Pacific coast of North America, having yellow or orange flowers and finely divided bluish-green leaves
  • calligraphically — In a calligraphic manner: using calligraphy.
  • capacity booking — a time when someone has booked the whole of a venue or the maximum amount of something available
  • cape may warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica tigrina, olive-green striped with black on the wings and back and yellow striped with black on the breast.
  • capillary action — Also called capillary action, capillary attraction. Physics. a manifestation of surface tension by which the portion of the surface of a liquid coming in contact with a solid is elevated or depressed, depending on the adhesive or cohesive properties of the liquid.
  • capillary-action — Also called capillary action, capillary attraction. Physics. a manifestation of surface tension by which the portion of the surface of a liquid coming in contact with a solid is elevated or depressed, depending on the adhesive or cohesive properties of the liquid.
  • capital employed — the money used by a business for buying land, buildings, equipment etc
  • capitalistically — In a capitalistic manner.
  • carboxypeptidase — any of several digestive enzymes that catalyze the removal of an amino acid from the end of a peptide chain having a free carbonyl group.
  • cartographically — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
  • cartridge player — an audio or video system that reads cartridges of magnetic tape
  • caryophyllaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caryophyllaceae, a family of flowering plants including the pink, carnation, sweet william, and chickweed
  • catastrophically — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • category planner — A category planner is a person whose job to plan and co-ordinate future inventory and sales volume in one or more product categories.
  • cayenne (pepper) — a very hot, reddish condiment made from various capsicums
  • cervera y topete — Pascual [pahs-kwahl] /pɑsˈkwɑl/ (Show IPA), 1839–1909, Spanish admiral.
  • chemoprophylaxis — the prevention of disease using chemical drugs
  • chernobyl packet — (networking)   /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
  • child psychiatry — the branch of psychiatry specializing in the treatment of children.
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • chondrodysplasia — (medicine) A genetic disorder characterized by short-limbed dwarfism.
  • chryselephantine — (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory
  • churidar pyjamas — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
  • collared peccary — a piglike artiodactyl mammal, Tayassu tajacu, of forests of southern North America, Central and South America: family Tayassuidae
  • companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
  • company of jesus — former name of the Society of Jesus.
  • complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
  • complexity class — (algorithm)   A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
  • composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
  • compositionality — The property of being compositional.
  • conspicuity tape — a highly reflective strip or tape used on a vehicle, clothing, etc., to make it more visible in low light.
  • conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
  • cracker capacity — The cracker capacity is the amount of a particular product which a refinery can produce.
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
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