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16-letter words containing p, o, n, d, l

  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • 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.
  • encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
  • forward planning — business: making future provisions
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • indianapolis 500 — a 500-mile oval-track race for rear-engine cars having particular specifications, held annually in Indianapolis, Ind.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
  • 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).
  • lodgepole (pine) — a Rocky Mountain pine (Pinus contorta) used for lumber, poles, etc.
  • look up and down — to search everywhere
  • many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • 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
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
  • neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
  • non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
  • parallelepipedon — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
  • 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
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
  • percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
  • personal details — details about a person such as their name and address
  • phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • pilot production — sth produced on a trial basis
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