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15-letter words containing p, l, o, t, i, n

  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hospitalisation — (British) alternative spelling of hospitalization.
  • hospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
  • hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • implementations — Plural form of implementation.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • in short supply — If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.
  • inappropriately — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
  • incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • incompatibility — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
  • inflation-proof — not affected by inflation
  • inspirationally — imparting inspiration.
  • inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • interpersonally — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
  • interpopulation — Between populations.
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • intraperitoneal — Within the cavity of the peritoneum.
  • intrapopulation — occurring within a population or between members of a population
  • introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
  • introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
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