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

  • gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • 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.
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
  • half life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
  • hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • herod agrippa ii — died ?93 ad, king of territories in N Palestine (50–?93 ad). He presided (60) at the trial of Saint Paul and sided with the Roman authorities in the Jewish rebellion of 66
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • honeymoon period — a period of popularity enjoyed by a new government, or a new occupant of a post
  • 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.
  • hydnocarpic acid — an acid, C 16 H 28 O 2 , obtained from chaulmoogra oil, and used in the treatment of leprosy.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperchlorhydria — excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • hypsilophodontid — An informal grouping of small ornithopod dinosaurs, regarded as fast, herbivorous bipeds on the order of 1\u20132 meters long (3.3-6.6 feet).
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • immunosuppressed — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
  • 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.
  • incorrespondence — Lack of correspondence; failure to correspond or match up; disagreement; disproportion.
  • indianapolis 500 — a 500-mile oval-track race for rear-engine cars having particular specifications, held annually in Indianapolis, Ind.
  • 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)
  • isophthalic acid — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the meta isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
  • josquin des prés — Josquin [zhuhs-kan;; French zhaws-kan] /ˈʒʌs kæn;; French ʒɔsˈkɛ̃/ (Show IPA), c1445–1521, Flemish composer.
  • josquin des prez — 1440?-1521; Fr. composer
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • ladies'-eardrops — lady's-earrings.
  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
  • limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
  • lodgepole (pine) — a Rocky Mountain pine (Pinus contorta) used for lumber, poles, etc.
  • 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
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • 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
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