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16-letter words containing p, i, a, g, e

  • hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
  • high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
  • historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • image processing — (graphics)   Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
  • imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in plain english — in clear and simple language
  • integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
  • inter-packet gap — (networking)   A time delay between successive data packets mandated by the network standard for protocol reasons. In Ethernet, the medium has to be "silent" (i.e., no data transfer) for a few microseconds before a node can consider the network idle and start to transmit. This is necessary for fairness reasons. The delay time, which approximately equals the signal propagation time on the cable, allows the "silence" to reach the far end so that all nodes consider the net idle.
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • interpenetrating — Present participle of interpenetrate.
  • japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • knitting pattern — a pattern that tells you how to knit a garment or another object
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • led page printer — LED printer
  • 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
  • logical operator — any of the Boolean symbols or functions, as AND, OR, and NOT, denoting a Boolean operation; Boolean operator.
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
  • magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
  • 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
  • magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
  • malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
  • marriage partner — a person you are married to
  • marriage portion — dowry.
  • marseille prolog — (language)   One of the two main dialects of Prolog, the other being Edinburgh Prolog. The difference is largely syntax. The original Marseille Interpreter (1973) was written in Fortran.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • megasporogenesis — the formation and development of megaspores.
  • metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
  • microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
  • neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
  • non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
  • oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
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