16-letter words containing p, l, e, a
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
- dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
- displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
- displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
- display terminal — Visual Display Unit
- disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
- disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
- dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
- double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
- double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
- drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
- 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.
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
- easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- 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.
- electrical power — electricity
- 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.
- electron capture — the transformation of an atomic nucleus in which an electron from the atom is spontaneously absorbed into the nucleus. A proton is changed into a neutron, thereby reducing the atomic number by 1. A neutrino is emitted. The process may be detected by the consequent emission of the characteristic X-rays of the resultant element
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- 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.
- encephalomalacia — (medicine) A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- epiphenomenalism — (philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- 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
- exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
- experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
- expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
- exponential-time — (complexity) The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.