16-letter words containing p, i, a, g
- cartridge player — an audio or video system that reads cartridges of magnetic tape
- catch sb napping — If someone is caught napping, something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been.
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- charged particle — an atomic particle with a positive or negative charge, as an electron, proton, or helium ion
- chemical peeling — a cosmetic process in which a substance containing a chemical (esp alpha-hydroxy acids) is applied to the skin of the face and peeled away to remove a layer of dead cells
- chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
- cholangiographic — Relating to cholangiography.
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
- chromolithograph — a picture produced by chromolithography
- 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
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- 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.
- constant mapping — (networking) A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
- contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
- 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.
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
- 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 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
- diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- diphthongisation — The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
- diphthongization — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- disappearing act — magic trick
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- 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
- 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.
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.