16-letter words containing p, r, e, s, l
- circumscriptible — Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
- clearance-papers — the act of clearing.
- compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
- court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
- creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
- crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- decision problem — (theory) A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
- depart this life — to die
- departmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of departmentalize.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
- 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
- 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.
- do oneself proud — to do extremely well
- 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.
- drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- droves of people — large numbers of people
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
- easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electroreceptors — Plural form of electroreceptor.
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
- expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
- 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.
- feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you