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

  • acidophilus milk — milk fermented by bacteria of the species Lactobacillus acidophilus, used in treating disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
  • bacterioplankton — (biology) The bacterial component of marine plankton.
  • black bottom pie — a rich pie with a rum- or whiskey-flavored chocolate filling, often with a crust of crushed gingersnaps, and topped with whipped cream.
  • black propaganda — propaganda that does not come from the source it claims to come from
  • black woodpecker — a large woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, found in parts of Eurasia and Africa
  • blink comparator — an optical instrument used to detect small differences in two photographs of the same field or object by viewing them alternately, switching rapidly from one to the other.
  • bouquet larkspur — a plant, Delphinium grandiflorum, of eastern Asia, having blue or whitish flowers and hairy fruit.
  • burkitt lymphoma — a rare type of tumour of the white blood cells, occurring mainly in Africa and associated with infection by Epstein-Barr virus
  • chernobyl packet — (networking)   /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
  • commonplace book — a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered
  • development bank — A development bank is a bank that provides money for projects in poor countries or areas.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • 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.
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • 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.
  • in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
  • keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • kepler telescope — astronomical telescope.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • knock for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
  • know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • lick one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • look up and down — to search everywhere
  • mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
  • make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
  • mock turtle soup — a rich, clear soup prepared to resemble green turtle soup, made with a calf's head or other meat, seasonings, and often with wine.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • network topology — (networking)   The "shape" of a network, how the nodes are connected to each other. Common topologies are bus network, star network and ring network.
  • parkerhouse roll — a yeast roll shaped by folding over a flat, round piece of buttered dough
  • philosopher king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • philosopher-king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • plain-spokenness — the quality or characteristic of being plain-spoken
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • rocket-propelled — using rocket power as the chief motive force.
  • rolled paperwork — a form of decoration on small objects, such as boxes, in which a design is made up of tiny rolls of paper cut crossways and laid together: popular in the 18th and 19th centuries
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • smokeless powder — any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • speak for itself — be self-evident
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.

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