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16-letter words containing p, o, t, a, l, e

  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
  • self-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the same flower, another flower on the same plant, or the flower of a plant of the same clone.
  • self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • 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.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solid propellant — a rocket propellant in solid form, usually containing a mixture or combination of fuel and oxidizer.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • speak for itself — be self-evident
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • spinone italiano — one of an Italian breed of large all-purpose hunting dogs having a short wiry coat, solid white or white with light brown or yellow patches in color.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • stop-loss clause — a limitation on the amount of loss sustained by the insured without compensation in a given period.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
  • terminal adaptor — (networking, hardware)   (TA) Equipment used to adapt Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) channels to existing terminal equipment standards such as EIA-232 and V.35. A Terminal Adaptor is typically packaged like a modem, either as a stand-alone unit or as an interface card that plugs into a computer or other communications equipment (such as a router or PBX). A Terminal Adaptor does not interoperate with a modem; it replaces it.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
  • to play the fool — If you play the fool or act the fool, you behave in a playful, childish, and foolish way, usually in order to make other people laugh.
  • to speak volumes — If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.
  • topical-sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
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