16-letter words containing p, o, d, e, t
- great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- headed notepaper — notepaper headed with the name and address of a person or organization
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
- heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
- incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
- level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
- limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
- lord proprietary — (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony
- macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- microlepidoptera — a collector's name for the smaller moths: a term without taxonomic significance
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
- multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
- network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
- neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
- non-incorporated — formed or constituted as a legal corporation.
- non-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
- odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
- on the up and up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- on the up-and-up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- operating budget — money allocated to a project
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- over-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- palmitoleic acid — a colorless, unsaturated fatty acid, C 1 6 H 3 0 O 2 , occurring in oils and fats of plants and animals.
- pantothenic acid — a hydroxy acid, C 9 H 1 7 O 5 N, found in plant and animal tissues, rice, bran, etc., that is part of the B complex of vitamins and is essential for cell growth.
- partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- passage to india — a novel (1924) by E. M. Forster.
- patched-together — makeshift; roughly made from disparate elements