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16-letter words containing p, i, a, c, u

  • 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.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • 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
  • 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.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • 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.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
  • ice-cream supper — an ice-cream social held in the late afternoon or early evening.
  • imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • impact structure — a large geologic formation, as a crater, created by a comet's or meteor's collision with a planet.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
  • in quintuplicate — in five identical copies
  • inauspiciousness — The state, quality, or condition of being inauspicious or unpropitious; unfavorableness.
  • insurance policy — contract that insures sth
  • internal capsule — a broad band of white fibres near the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • laplace equation — the second-order partial differential equation indicating that the Laplace operator operating on a given function results in zero. Compare harmonic (def 4c).
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
  • magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
  • malpractice suit — a lawsuit brought against a professional accused of illegal or unethical practices or neglect of duty
  • mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • micromanipulator — A device, used for micromanipulation, consisting of microscopic needles and instruments viewed through a microscope.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
  • municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
  • mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
  • nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
  • nucleophilically — In a nucleophilic manner.
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