16-letter words containing p, e, g, a
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- cleanup campaign — an organized programme to clean up a place, typically organized at a local or regional level
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
- corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
- deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- disappearing act — magic trick
- dispersing agent — a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping
- disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- 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).
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
- fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
- galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.