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16-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i

  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • dichlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing two chlorine atoms.
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
  • 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
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • 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.
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • 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.
  • electrical power — electricity
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • electrophilicity — (chemistry, uncountable) the condition of being electrophilic.
  • electroreception — The detection by an aquatic animal of electric fields or currents.
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
  • epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
  • expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
  • expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
  • federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
  • feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • filter promotion — (algorithm)   In a generate and test algorithm, combining part of the filter with the generator in order to reduce the number of potential solutions generated. A trivial example: filter (< 100) [1..1000] ==> [1..99] where [1..n] generates the list of integers from 1 to n. Here the filter has been combined completely with the generator. This is an example of fusion.
  • finless porpoise — a porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Indian and pacific Oceans that completely lacks a dorsal fin
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • furniture polish — product: shines wood
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • 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-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
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