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16-letter words containing p, l, o, i

  • 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.
  • disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
  • 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 personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • electrophilicity — (chemistry, uncountable) the condition of being electrophilic.
  • electroreception — The detection by an aquatic animal of electric fields or currents.
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • 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.
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
  • 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
  • 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
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • explosive device — a device, such as a bomb, that explodes or bursts loudly and with great force
  • 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.
  • expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • filter promotion — (algorithm)   In a generate and test algorithm, combining part of the filter with the generator in order to reduce the number of potential solutions generated. A trivial example: filter (< 100) [1..1000] ==> [1..99] where [1..n] generates the list of integers from 1 to n. Here the filter has been combined completely with the generator. This is an example of fusion.
  • 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
  • finless porpoise — a porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Indian and pacific Oceans that completely lacks a dorsal fin
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • flash photolysis — the study of photochemical reaction mechanisms in gases by analyzing spectroscopically the reaction products in a gas mixture irradiated with a powerful light flash.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
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