16-letter words containing p, i, g, o
- 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
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- 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.
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
- cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
- 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.
- 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
- depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
- 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
- developing world — Third World: poor countries
- 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.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
- disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
- disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
- drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- evening primrose — flowering plant
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
- forward planning — business: making future provisions
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- 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.
- garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
- gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
- gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
- geographic range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.