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16-letter words containing p, l, i

  • davila y padilla — Agustín ("Chronicler of the Indies") 1562–1604, Mexican historian.
  • decapitalization — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • 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
  • delphi technique — a forecasting or decision-making technique that makes use of written questionnaires to eliminate the influence of personal relationships and the domination of committees by strong personalities
  • depart this life — to die
  • departmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of departmentalize.
  • departmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of departmentalize.
  • 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.
  • depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
  • depoliticization — The act or process of depoliticizing.
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
  • depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
  • 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
  • developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
  • developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • developmentation — (proscribed, chiefly, US, and, humorous) Development.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • 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
  • dichlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing two chlorine atoms.
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • digital envelope — (cryptography)  
  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • 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.
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • 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 standard — (hardware, standard)   IBM and others have introduced a bewildering plethora of graphics and text display standards for IBM PCs. The standards are mostly implemented by plugging in a video display board (or "graphics adaptor") and connecting the appropriate monitor to it. Each new standard subsumes its predecessors. For example, an EGA board can also do CGA and MDA. With the PS/2, IBM introduced the VGA standard and built it into the main system board motherboard. VGA is also available as a plug-in board for PCs from third-party vendors. Also with the PS/2, IBM introduced the 8514 high-resolution graphics standard. An 8514 adaptor board plugs into the PS/2, providing a dual-monitor capability. Graphics software had to support the major IBM graphics standards and many non-IBM, proprietary standards for displays. Either software vendors provided display drivers or display vendors provided drivers for the software package. In either case, switching software or switching display systems was fraught with compatibility problems. More colours are available from third-party vendors for some display types. See also MDA, CGA, EGA, PGA, Hercules, MCGA, VGA, SVGA, 8514, VESA.
  • 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.
  • diurnal parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • dollar diplomacy — a government policy of promoting the business interests of its citizens in other countries.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • 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.
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • 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
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
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