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16-letter words containing p, o, r, t, a, g

  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
  • geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
  • go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • 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.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • 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.
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
  • historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
  • hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
  • 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
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • lithographically — In the manner of lithography.
  • logical operator — any of the Boolean symbols or functions, as AND, OR, and NOT, denoting a Boolean operation; Boolean operator.
  • macrophotography — Photography that is done up close; close-up photography.
  • magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
  • marriage portion — dowry.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
  • metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
  • microangiopathic — Of, pertaining to or accompanied by microangiopathy.
  • microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
  • microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
  • microphotography — microfilm (def 1).
  • micropropagation — the propagation of plants from tissue cultures, often from single cells.
  • misappropriating — Present participle of misappropriate.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • mortgage payment — instalment paid on a housebuyer's loan
  • multiprogramming — multitasking
  • neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
  • nonparticipating — (of a person or thing) not participating: No penalties were given to nonparticipating students.
  • nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
  • oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
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