16-letter words containing p, r, a, d, e, s
- displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
- display terminal — Visual Display Unit
- disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
- disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
- domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
- domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
- drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
- garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
- gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- 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.
- graphic designer — person: commercial artist
- graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
- 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.
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
- headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
- himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- 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)
- keep under wraps — not reveal
- ladies'-eardrops — lady's-earrings.
- lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
- laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
- laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
- lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
- manic depression — bipolar disorder.
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
- 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
- padded shoulders — (on a garment) shoulders lined, stuffed, or filled out with soft material, esp in order to give them a higher or wider shape