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

  • torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
  • transition point — Physics. a temperature at which a substance undergoes some abrupt change in its properties, as when it passes from the normal to the superconducting state.
  • transpeptidation — the process of transferring an amino acid or group of amino acids from one compound to another.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • trap-door spider — any of several burrowing spiders, of the family Ctenizidae, that construct a tubular nest with a hinged lid.
  • trapezoidal rule — a numerical method for evaluating the area between a curve and an axis by approximating the area with the areas of trapezoids.
  • trial separation — an experimental period of living apart
  • trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
  • tridarn cupboard — a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.
  • triple-expansion — noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.
  • tropic of cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
  • tropical cyclone — a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names. Compare extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def 1), willy-willy.
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • turn upside down — invert
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • ultramicroscopic — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • uncinate process — a curved, bony process on certain ribs of birds that projects backward and overlaps the succeeding rib, serving to strengthen the thorax.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
  • union membership — members of a trade union
  • united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
  • unproportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unresponsiveness — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vapor combustion — Vapor combustion is a closed burn system used for treating liquid waste which contains volatile organic compounds.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • verneuil process — a process for making synthetic rubies, sapphires, spinels, etc., by the fusion at high temperatures of powdered compounds.
  • videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
  • vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
  • vinylpyrrolidone — Vinylpyrrolidone is a substance used as a binder in pharmaceuticals.
  • virginia cowslip — a perennial woodland plant (Mertensia virginica) of the borage family, native to E North America and having clusters of blue or purple, bell-shaped flowers
  • vitruvius pollio — Marcus, flourished 1st century b.c, Roman architect, engineer, and author.
  • voice production — the use of the voice in order to create particular effects
  • walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • willow ptarmigan — a ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus, of arctic and subarctic regions of the New and Old Worlds, having brown, mottled plumage in summer and white plumage in winter.
  • wimp environment — WIMP
  • windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
  • wisconsin rapids — a city in central Wisconsin.
  • work-in-progress — In book-keeping, work-in-progress refers to the monetary value of work that has not yet been paid for because it has not yet been completed.
  • world exposition — world's fair.
  • writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
  • yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
  • yellow pimpernel — Lysimachia nemorum
  • zero-zero option — (in international nuclear arms negotiations) an offer to remove all intermediate-range nuclear missiles, if the other side will do the same
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